Best Anne Somerset Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.”

Promise Romantic Faithful Loyal Partnership Vow Queen Anne Anne Somerset Till Death Do Its Part

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“I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.”

Suffering Illness Afterlife Chronic Illness Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.”

Suffering Tragic Bereavement Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.”

Character Power Honest Integrity Accusation Rogue Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.”

Love Relationships Friendship Sad Breakup Ending Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.”

Summer Lazy Relaxing Queen Anne Anne Somerset Indolent

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“Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.”

Love Constant Loyal Changes Steadfast Stay With Me Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.”

Illusion Rivalry Crafty Queen Anne Iago Anne Somerset Scheming Underhanded Wounds In The Dark

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“We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.”

Politics Party Politics Queen Anne Anne Somerset Partisan

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“People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.”

Relationships Reconciliation Breach Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.”

Horror Hindsight Foreshadowing Vows Queen Anne Anne Somerset Broken Vows

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“Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.”

Friendship Secrets Secrecy Queen Anne Anne Somerset Confidences

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“Anne declared that if Sarah abandoned her, "I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature.”

Love Relationships Codependent Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“To his distress, the Queen suddenly "burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did.”

Miserable Weeping Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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“I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.”

Friendship Abuse Mistreated Frenemies Queen Anne Anne Somerset

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