Anne Somerset Quotes

“Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“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.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“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.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Anne declared that if Sarah abandoned her, "I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“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.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion