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Eleanor Herman QUOTES

1 " Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

2 " Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

3 " Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

4 " Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

5 " Because sometimes it doesn’t help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

6 " Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

7 " He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue—the "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

8 " When the destiny of a nation is in a woman’s bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. — CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

9 " But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

10 " Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos, "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

11 " in the mind. "

― Eleanor Herman , Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1)

12 " Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

13 " Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

14 " The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

15 " When Marguerite (Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), caught malaria, she claimed the royal family of Tuscany was trying to murder her, but that she would, in fact, rather die than return to her husband. Louis XIV asked the pope to threaten excommunication if Marguerite persisted, and the pontiff sent her a harsh letter. She didn't fear hell, she replied she was already living in it. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

16 " Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. —Michel de Montaigne O "

― Eleanor Herman , Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

17 " O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de’ Medici O "

― Eleanor Herman , Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

18 " The more I see of men,” she grumbled in one, “the more I love dogs.”50 "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

19 " History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss. "

― Eleanor Herman , Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

20 " Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time. "

― Eleanor Herman , Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope