Henry VIII Underground
Possibly the best poster on the London Tube
King Henry the Eighth,
to six wives he was wedded.
One died, one survived,
two divorced, two beheaded
The wives of Henry VIII (six “queens consort”) between 1509 and 1547 in chronological order:
Catherine of Aragon (annulled; died while detained under guard at Kimbolton Castle)
Anne Boleyn (annulled and later executed)
Jane Seymour (died days after giving birth, widely believed to be following birth complications)
Anne of Cleves (annulled)
Catherine Howard (annulled and later executed)
Catherine Parr (widowed)
QuotaBillsHistory develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster
What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte
History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius
There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde
U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker
History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James
The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. - Bette Midler
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey
I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. - Michelle Dockery
In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant
Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley
How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes
Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell