Anne Boleyn/queen of England - 1533-1536

Famous quotes containing the words boleyn, queen and/or england:

    Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
    Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
    A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
    Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
    With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)