Tudors Quotes

• We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

  Damian Lewis

  Creating, Rereading, Novel

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• The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.

  Karl Pilkington

  Knows, Ifs

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• London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

  William Monahan

  London, Matter, Has Beens

  Source: collider.com

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• I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

  Natalie

  Heart, Special, Dynasty

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• Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

  Tod Machover

  Exercise, Headphones, Elizabethan

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

  Annabelle Wallis

  Drama, People, Ruffles

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• For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.

  Linda Colley

  Land, Class, Inheritance

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press

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• I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

  Judith Jamison

  Class, Ballet, Age

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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• In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Mind, Lines, Littles

  Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”

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• I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

  Ilka Chase

  Rose, Potatoes, Should

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

  Simon Jenkins

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

  Sharon Horgan

  Beautiful, House, Example

  "My East End: Sharon Horgan, actor". Interview With Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Past, English History, Two

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• The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

  Natalie Dormer

  Jobs, Thinking, Matter

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• My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

  Deborah Harkness

  Firsts, Return, Planning

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.525, Penguin

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• But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Doors, Looks

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.226, Penguin

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• What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  House, Burning Down, Generations

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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