Most readers cannot tell the difference between the arrogant boasts of a Cardinal and the desperate pleas of a dying Queen. King Henry VIII Quotes Quiz is a test of your ear for the specific language of the Tudor court. Can you attribute these famous lines to the right speakers before the curtain falls?
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King Henry VIII Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”
- “Like a bright exhalation in the evening, and no man see me more.”
- “Be advised, dear Madam, ’tis a dangerous thing to speak so freely.”
- “Orpheus with his lute made trees, and the mountain tops that freeze bow themselves when he did sing.”
- “Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, to silence envious tongues.”
- “Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
- “By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it?”
- “I would not be a queen for all the world.”
- “There is no English soul more stronger to direct you than yourself.”
- “You speak not like yourself; who ever yet knew the reverend father such a voice to sound?”
- “He’s gone, and we shall find no earthly man so noble.”
- “Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue.”
- “This holy fox, or wolf, or both, is grown so great, we call him reverend.”
- “Heaven’s peace be with him! That’s Christian charity.”
- “I am the shadow of poor Buckingham, whose figure even this instant cloud puts on.”
- “O my lord, must I then leave you? Must I needs forego so good, so noble, and so true a master?”
- “My drops of tears I’ll turn to sparks of fire.”
- “By my faith, and so it did me good: I would not be a queen.”
- “I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; and from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting.”
- “Thus far, my most dread sovereign, may it like your grace to let my tongue excuse all.”
- “There’s a kind of merry madness in his mirth.”
- “Let’s dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; and, when I am forgotten, as I shall be.”
- “All is true.”
- “God mend all! All shall be well.”
- “The king is kind; and well we know the king knows at what time to promise.”
- “Pray God he be not angry.”
- “This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms.”
- “By th’ mass, I think in his own person he comes along.”
- “Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low—an excellent thing in woman.”
- “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”