Best 15 quotes of Anne Somerset on MyQuotes

Anne declared that if Sarah abandoned her, "I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature.

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.

I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.

I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.

I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.

I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.

Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.

Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.

So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.

The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.

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.

We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them.

Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.