Henry Viii/early Years - 1491-1509

Famous quotes containing the words viii, early and/or years:

    “I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.”
    —Henry VIII (1491–1547)

    “Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfil the promise of their early years.”
    —Anthony Powell (b. 1905)

    “Though her years were waning,
    Her climacteric teased her like her teens.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)