Henry Ii Quotes

“...Life without sinning was like food without salt, pure but tasteless.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept

“She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Devil's Brood

“We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Devil's Brood

“[The archbishop’s court] sentenced him to the loss of his prebend and all other revenues for two years, with the profits to be distributed to the poor at the king’s discretion, to a public whipping in the presence of the judge he had insulted, and possibly to one or two years’ banishment. Henry [II] was outraged by the leniency.”
― Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket