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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4) QUOTES

The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4) QUOTES

1 " Murders can be committed successfully sometimes, but the disposal of the body is always a difficult matter. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

2 " The Wars of the Roses could be called the Wars of No Quarter. There is always a special ferocity in civil conflict, but the wearers of the Red and the Snow Roses were particularly revengeful. Margaret of Anjou is given credit for introducing much of the acrimony, but Edward IV, that handsome gladiatorial figure, carried it on by wholesome decapitations after the battles he won. Richard was as ambitious as any member of his family and did not scruple to use the sharp medicine of the headman’s axe against him. But a similar cause, which won admiration for Edward because he succeeded with it, was condemned in the cause of the younger and less spectacular brother because he failed. Enmity was built up against him. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

3 " Historians have never made the mistake of underestimating Henry VII, not even those who like him little. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

4 " We cannot judge the leading figures of centuries ago by our own modern standards. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

5 " All tyrants, no matter how powerful they conceive themselves to be, live in fear. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

6 " he again expressed his belief that the equality of man was what God had planned and that all feudal laws must some day be abolished. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)

7 " The years from 1400 to 1485, which intervened between the deaths of Richard II and Richard III, were filled with the color and cruelties of civil war, with stories of deep villainy and vile conspiracy and with some slight imprints of the genius of an emerging imagination. "

― Thomas B. Costain , The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)