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Top 20 Dan Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

Dan Jones Quote: “If the cycle of violence that had engulfed the English Crown for nearly five decades seemed finally to be coming to an end, it was only because there were so few candidates left to kill.”

1. “If the cycle of violence that had engulfed the English Crown for nearly five decades seemed finally to be coming to an end, it was only because there were so few candidates left to kill.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Pope Pius II, watching England from afar, would later describe Henry in this phase of his life as “a man more timorous than a woman, utterly devoid of wit or spirit, who left everything in his wife’s hands.”2.”

2. “Pope Pius II, watching England from afar, would later describe Henry in this phase of his life as “a man more timorous than a woman, utterly devoid of wit or spirit, who left everything in his wife’s hands.”2.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick’s aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.”

3. “Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick’s aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.”

Dan Jones Quote: “The Holland family traced their own royal ancestry through Henry IV’s sister Elizabeth. In January 1444 the most senior Holland, John, earl of Huntingdon, was promoted to duke of Exeter, with precedence over all other dukes except for York – another elevation specifically credited to his closeness in blood to the king. John Holland died in August 1447, and his son Henry Holland eventually succeeded to his duchy.”

4. “The Holland family traced their own royal ancestry through Henry IV’s sister Elizabeth. In January 1444 the most senior Holland, John, earl of Huntingdon, was promoted to duke of Exeter, with precedence over all other dukes except for York – another elevation specifically credited to his closeness in blood to the king. John Holland died in August 1447, and his son Henry Holland eventually succeeded to his duchy.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Principium fini solet impar sepe uidere ‘Often the end fails to equal the beginning.”

5. “Principium fini solet impar sepe uidere ‘Often the end fails to equal the beginning.”

Dan Jones Quote: “He wasn’t an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”

6. “He wasn’t an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”

7. “Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”

Dan Jones Quote: “The Tudor rose was invented to symbolize the unity that had supposedly been brought about when Henry VII married Edward IV’s daughter Elizabeth of York in 1486, entwining the two warring branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, together.”

8. “The Tudor rose was invented to symbolize the unity that had supposedly been brought about when Henry VII married Edward IV’s daughter Elizabeth of York in 1486, entwining the two warring branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, together.”

Dan Jones Quote: “The Templars charged into battle under a black-and-white flag, and as they rode they would sometimes sing a psalm to give them strength. It feels appropriate to quote those lines as we begin our story: ‘Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give the glory, for your steadfast love and faithfulness.’ Enjoy the ride.”

9. “The Templars charged into battle under a black-and-white flag, and as they rode they would sometimes sing a psalm to give them strength. It feels appropriate to quote those lines as we begin our story: ‘Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give the glory, for your steadfast love and faithfulness.’ Enjoy the ride.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Rebels depend on willful gullibility.”

10. “Rebels depend on willful gullibility.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Yet, ironically, by committing to live in penury the Templars become rich.”

11. “Yet, ironically, by committing to live in penury the Templars become rich.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Extravagance was a political necessity.”

12. “Extravagance was a political necessity.”

Dan Jones Quote: “He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”

13. “He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Even given the advantage of a surprise attack, it was vain to believe that a few hundred men fighting against thousands would lead to anything but annihilation.”

14. “Even given the advantage of a surprise attack, it was vain to believe that a few hundred men fighting against thousands would lead to anything but annihilation.”

Dan Jones Quote: “As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.”

15. “As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.”

Dan Jones Quote: “He told them that going willingly to their deaths in Christ’s name was a sure path to salvation. Of course, it was one thing for Bernard to write this, theorizing a thousand miles from the Holy Land and glorifying in a martyrdom he would never himself experience. It was quite another for a band of ninety Templars, called from their castle and told to attack against impossible odds, to swallow down their fear and do it. Yet they did.”

16. “He told them that going willingly to their deaths in Christ’s name was a sure path to salvation. Of course, it was one thing for Bernard to write this, theorizing a thousand miles from the Holy Land and glorifying in a martyrdom he would never himself experience. It was quite another for a band of ninety Templars, called from their castle and told to attack against impossible odds, to swallow down their fear and do it. Yet they did.”

Dan Jones Quote: “He was the only figure able to hold the peace between his uncle.”

17. “He was the only figure able to hold the peace between his uncle.”

Dan Jones Quote: “While Edward was accustomed to fighting on foot, Warwick was said by one chronicler to prefer to run with his men into battle before mounting on horseback, “and if he found victory inclined to his side, he charged boldly among them; if otherwise he took care of himself in time and provided for his escape.”

18. “While Edward was accustomed to fighting on foot, Warwick was said by one chronicler to prefer to run with his men into battle before mounting on horseback, “and if he found victory inclined to his side, he charged boldly among them; if otherwise he took care of himself in time and provided for his escape.”

Dan Jones Quote: “Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.”

19. “Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.”

Dan Jones Quote: “The king’s “only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment.”

20. “The king’s “only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment.”

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