Louise de la Valliere

(sideblog for madamehenriette)

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 8

Tears On Tape

There are songs that are missing on this album, only because they do not have lyrics. (They're breaking points on the album.) This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

All Lips Go Blue

"A moment of calm before the storm"

"Reminding me how much I loved you"

"It‘s all for you"

Love Without Tears

"I should've known all along"

"love without tears, is just a story told to keep us hanging on."

"Go on and prove me wrong."

"Please let me be so wrong."

I Will Be The End Of You

"I will be the end of you."

"Don't you stop, now."

"Go on and tear me apart"

"Show me all you have got"

"I will be so free"

"We'll be so free"

Tears On Tape

"Church bells toll"

”Thunder rolls around me.”

"I’ve been warned to prepare myself for the fall"

"I will follow into your heart"

"Darkness falls"

"Settling the score with love for once and for all"

"For a moment there’s no pain"

"For once there’s no more pain in your eyes"

"Maybe we’ll love, just enough."

"I will follow you, into your arms"

Into The Night

"Sinking further in this sanguinary sea"

"Into the night we ride."

"Blinded by the sun's brightest rays"

"Will you meet me there?"

Hearts At War

"So, after all that we have done are you feeling cold like the winter sun?"

"And have you thought about all the words that we left unsaid?"

"Don't be scared"

"Don't be scared, you shouldn't be"

"Hearts at war for thing called love"

"There's no escaping"

"What we have brought upon ourselves again?"

"There's no way out"

"We brought this upon ourselves again"

No Love

"Forever and ever!"

"Lonely, I hold her, and crave for your warmth."

"There's no love"

"No love will be enough for what I'm feeling"

"No love will be the end of this dreaming of you"

"The light is long gone and I wonder where you are"

"This dreaming of you"

Drawn & Quartered

"We could be like all the others with nowhere to go"

"We could be like all the others."

"Let’s hold these hearts for one another"

"If I’m drawn and quartered it’s only for you."

"Shall we hold that thought now and forever"

"Been waiting for you"

"Every part of me wants to believe there’s a darkness we need to feel"

"For the brightest light to be seen and felt inside, only because of you"

"Only because of you."

"I’ll stay yours"

"Go on and run away."

"We'll be always"

W.L.S.T.D.

"I kissed the void and crawled straight into its heart"

"I pray to hear again that serpent song wishing it would be over"

"When love starts to die it begins with a kiss"

"When love starts to die so do I."

"That's right."

"Still waiting for your call"

"Your words tickle like angel's wings clipped"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 7

Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice

This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

In Venere Veritas

"Let's fall apart together now"

"Have no fear."

"There are wounds that are not meant to heal"

"Come inside"

"In Venere veritas"

"There is a method to our sadness"

"Blind and chase us over the edge"

Scared To Death

"In the biblical sense and sensibility, let me know you"

"I'll kiss that smile off your face, just say when."

"I'm not afraid to say I love you, any more than I used to be."

"I am scared to death"

"All these pickup lines from hell"

"I'm not afraid to admit I adore you"

"I'm not afraid to say I love you"

"I am scared to death to fall in love with you."

"You're sweet like poison"

Heartkiller

"Farewell heartless world"

"I'll send you a postcard."

"I'll write down everything I have learned"

"Edit it down to a single word"

"Love" 

"for you I'm waiting, anticipating"

"It doesn’t have to make any sense at all"

"Come hither and we'll fall In love."

"For you I'm open wide."

Dying Song

"I've seen you breathe life into the weakest of hearts"

"heard you scream out loud the sweetest poem"

"Echoing across the ocean reminding me why I still try, to hold onto whatever is left of you and I"

"Little deaths to a dying song, sound a lot like life"

"I've seen these dreams being crushed by a single thought"

"Little deaths to a dying song, sound a lot like life and love."

"Crawl back into bed, tomorrow's is trembling at the sight of you and I"

Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)

"A promise of heaven pushed us right back to hell"

"You laughed at my face when I told you how much it hurts"

"Disarm me with your loneliness"

"Deceive me out of my emptiness, telling me how you love"

"You keep on tempting me to go on, whatever the cost"

"I'll break all the rules in this endless game once called love for you"

"Telling me how you love me with all your heart"

"No more."

"Tell me how much it hurts my love?"

"Tell me how my kiss can change your world?"

"Tell me how much it hurts more to be alone."

Love, The Hardest Way

"For what it's worth I don't wanna see you hurt anymore."

"Love the hard way"

"Baudelaire in Braille"

"Once you lose yourself entomb, I promise you to love the hardest way"

"I promise you to love the hardest way"

"Weep, no more, unless you want to"

"Unless you want to."

Katherine Wheel

"Lo and behold, these are the things you make me do."

"I'm burning for you."

"Spin me around to blur the line between you and I"

"What are you waiting for?"

"Please don't stop until my heart no longer screams"

"Holding hands won't be enough, in a world giving head to a god."

"Love in Theory and Practice Chapter One."

"The dizzier I get, the clearer I see, with you, I'm at peace with the war within"

In The Arms Of Rain

"Once again, we found ourselves to be lost"

"Holding hands while straying from the path"

"In the arms of rain, we are free"

"In these arms, you belong"

"Ave Maria, we've tried"

"It's the end of the road and we're free"

Ode To Solitude

"Easy on the eyes, uneasy on the heart"

"I dare you to dream this"

"What I want to know is which makes you smile less"

"Here's to the pain"

"Come on"

"Ode to solitude"

"What I want to know is why you keep me hanging"

"If I should fail, and I will, to stay"

"Remember not to forget this feeling you have"

"I've failed"

"Please pretend it never happened"

Shatter Me With Hope

"Won't you come and play with me?"

"You can be Cassandra, underneath the Sword of Damocles"

"Wise like Solomon."

"Shatter me with hope"

"Scream me a dream untouched by shadows"

"She'll be the witness to the repose of Evelyn"

"To the canticles of ecstasy"

"Turn to page 43 and you'll know how I feel"

"Swear on your heart's grave I'm wrong."

"Love like your life's depending on it."

Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)

"You missed the winter, and it followed you back home"

"We are doing our best to disown the Golden Mean"

"By these acts of cruelty in the name of beauty to be free"

"We're dancing with tags on our toes."

"I save my last breath for you window"

"Let the planchette in the shape of heart glide to "Oui"

"The one last thing I know to be real is the shadow of you"

"Let's re-enact the fall."

"Killing love with a kiss"

Like St. Valentine

"I'm frozen to her and I want you"

"let me be your Valentine"

"try to keep a lie alive"

"Our drama is put on display."

"Love, lust, and the Holy Ghost"

"Love is the only war worth dying for"

"I'm all yours."

The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness

"By your heartstrings, I am hanging from a dream"

"These thoughts and actions miles above reality"

"Come look at the scars, smother a heart, opening up"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 6

Venus Doom

This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

Venus Doom

"She'll be the light to guide you back home"

"Just give her a kiss worth dying for."

"Oh beside your infernal offering touch."

"Don't lose yourself in this suffering."

"Hold on, to me."

"Watch me fall for you."

"All dreams are of you—my Venus doom"

Love In Cold Blood

"Serpentine love's thighs wrap around me in search for death"

"Darling, take me home to the castle made of skulls and bones"

"Love in cold blood."

"Breathe me in sweet suffering"

"Put me out of my misery"

Passion's Killing Floor

"It's poetry carved in flesh"

“This beautiful hell of ours.”

"Tears of joy fill our eyes"

"My heart's a graveyard."

"To evil we make love, on our passion's killing floor."

"Of lust we are reborn."

"Forevermore... that's right"

The Kiss Of Dawn

"Just look into my eyes" 

"Kiss our fears goodbye"

"I'm reaching for your shadow."

"Drowning in the kiss of dawn."

"I'm tired of the games, I'm playing with you"

"When you're not here"

"Have no fear."

"Let me look into your eyes."

Sleepwalking Past Hope

"Everything's unfair in our lust and war"

"Redemption beyond right and wrong"

"In our hearts, love keeps sweet-talking to despair"

"Sleepwalking past hope"

"All is lost in this war"

"I gave up long ago"

"Painting love with crimson flow"

"Ran out of blood and hope, so I paint you no more"

"From there, I crawl beneath Lucifer's claws, just for one last kiss."

"There's no hope."

Dead Lover's Lane

"Thrilled to start all over again"

"The maze of memories stained"

"Our needs beyond God's grasp"

"Scream out love's name in vain"

"Lose yourself alone in the dark"

Song Or Suicide

"Sorrow rebuild me as I step out of the light"

"Misery strengthen me as I say my goodbyes"

"I heal my wounds with grief"

"dream of you"

Bleed Well

"You had demons to kill within you screaming"

"Love preys the living and praises the dead"

"No love lost under her will,"

"Death is the answer to love's mysteries"

Cyanide Sun

"Should've known how hard it is to stop tearing each other apart"

"Separating souls entwined in all these labyrinthine lies"

"My love, forever in the dark"

"Of all untruths the truest is you, too close to my heart."

"This emptiness I've made my home"

"Forever in my heart"

"Underneath the cyanide sun"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 5

Dark Light

This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

Vampire Heart

"You can't escape the wrath of my heart"

"All faith is lust."

"Lead you along this path in the dark."

"Where I belong until I feel your warmth"

"Love me like you loved the sun"

"I'll be the thorns in every rose"

"You've been sent by hope"

"Waiting for your kiss to take me back home"

"Scorching the blood in my vampire heart"

Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly

"Heaven ablaze in our eyes"

"We're standing still in time"

"The blood on our hands is the wine"

"We offer as sacrifice”

"Come on, and show them your love"

"Rip out the wings of a butterfly"

"For your soul, my love"

"For your soul."

"Gods kneel before our crime"

Under The Rose

"I dream of the winter in my heart turning to spring"

"And so I drown with the sun"

"I've been burning in water and drowning in flame"

"To prove you wrong and scare you away"

"I admit my defeat and walk back home"

"your heart's under the rose"

Killing Loneliness

"Memories, sharp as daggers, pierce into the flesh of today"

"Suicide of love took away all that matters"

"Buried the remains in an unmarked grave in your heart."

"With the venomous kiss you gave me I'm killing loneliness"

"With the warmth of your arms you save me."

"secret words are said to start a war"

Dark Light

"In oblivion's garden"

"Her body's on fire"

"In peace with her God"

Behind The Crimson Door

"Covered the carcass of time with flowers"

"We hide behind the crimson door"

"While the summer is killed by the fall"

"Your love will be the death of me"

The Face Of God

"I'm drained but aching for more"

"The words of the saddest poem to be engraved on the stone of my grave"

"I'd kill to share you pain"

"And carry the shame"

"I dream what you're dreaming"

"Feel what you're feeling."

"Love's our shadow on the wall with the face of god."

"Love's our shadow on the wall."

"With the face of god."

"Nothing will be enough."

"Without the courage to leave"

"Oh I'd take my life for your kiss"

"Labyrinth in a shape of a heart"

"Love's secret architecture"

"I find myself to be lost in the arms of your fate."

"I'd sell my soul for you just to say, love's name in vain again and again."

Drunk On Shadows

"She bleeds for love."

"Drunk on shadows and lost in a lie."

"Killing ourselves a kiss at a time."

"Devil's dance while angel's smile."

"She's blinded by the fear of life and death and everything in between"

"A mirror where we see nothing but a reflection of heaven too far away"

"So alive."

Play Dead

"A moth into a butterfly and a lie into the sweetest truth"

"I'm so afraid of life"

"I see the seasons changing"

"I play dead."

"Until you veil my scars and say goodbye to fate"

"Before it's too late."

In The Nightside Of Eden

"Divided we stand in the light of a frozen sun"

"Cursing the gods we have become."

"We steal the fire from a sacred heart"

"We deceive ourselves to start a war"

"Learning the mathematics of evil by heart"

"Forever we are, forever we've been"

"In the nightside of Eden."

Venus (In Our Blood)

"Her Heaven's a lie to those who threw away the key"

"Her God is alive and well when the higher believes"

"You can't quench her thirst with the fear hiding away from the day"

"Venus denies you in your dark waters"

"Her savior was never on a cross pierced with nails"

"Thirty pieces of silver never retraced her mistake"

"She'll always be free from the arms of your sins"

"The moon kissed the sun"

The Cage

"For years, I've seen you fighting against your heart"

"Living like you're dying so far from the sun."

"Waiting for a guardian angel."

"You're hiding yourself away, from our cruel world's embrace"

"As your days turn to weeks, you'll cry yourself to sleep in the cage"

"Tears have turned from sweet to sour and hours to days"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 4

Love Metal

Adding And Love Said No to this album because there's no reason for it to have it's own post. (It's a compilation album.) This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

Buried Alive By Love

"Again the burden of losing rests upon my shoulders"

"To cry is to know that you're alive"

"I never wanted to fool you."

"It feels like I've been buried alive by love"

"If I should die before I wake pray no one my soul to take"

"If I wake before I die rescue me with your smile"

The Funeral Of Hearts

"Love's the funeral of hearts"

"An ode for cruelty"

"When love is a gun separating me from you."

"He was the fire, restless and wild and you were like a moth to that flame"

"The heretic seal" 

"beyond divine"

"A prayer to a god who's deaf and blind"

"The last rites for souls on fire"

"Three little words and a question, why?”

Beyond Redemption

"Feel it turning your heart into stone"

"Feel it piercing your courageous soul"

"Beyond now—redemption"

"No one's going to catch you when you fall"

Sweet Pandemonium

"The truth that could set souls free is buried within sweet pandemonium"

"The riddle stays veiled in sweet pandemonium"

Soul On Fire

"Sacrificing all we have for a frozen heart and soul on fire"

The Sacrament

"I hear you breathe so far from me"

"I feel your touch so close and real"

"And I know my church is not of silver and gold"

"Its glory lies beyond judgment of souls"

"The commandments are of consolation and warmth"

"You know our sacred dream won't fail"

"The sanctuary tender and so frail"

"The sacrament of love"

"The sacrament of warmth is true"

"The sacrament is you"

This Fortress Of Tears

"No one can hurt you now"

"In this haven safe and sound"

"Just hold your breath on your way down"

"This fortress won't fall I've built it strong for you"

Circle Of Fear

"If you want to save her then first, you have to save yourself"

"Don't show her you're afraid, because your circle of fear is the same"

Endless Dark

"But I know where I belong, away from your gods."

"That shine on you and tame your burning heart"

"That buried my truth right into your arms"

"That worship the tomb of our forlorn love"

"That heal all wounds and light, this endless dark"

The Path

"There is no turning back from this unending path of mine"

"I walk through the gardens of dying light and cross all the rivers deep and dark as the night."

"Searching for a reason why time passes by."

"Countless times, I've prayed for forgiveness But God's just laugh at my face"

"I see through the darkness my way back home"

"The journey seems endless, but I'll carry on"

"The shadows will rise and they will fall"

"And our night drowns in gold"

"And the night drowns in dawn"

Love's Requiem

"The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there"

"And that hope will be our love's requiem"

"Take me into your arms and sing me your beautiful song"

"Hold me until we're one and sing me your beautiful song"

And Love Said No

"Love's light, blue, led me to you."

"Through the emptiness that had become my home"

"that moment, I knew I was out of hope"

"Kill me," I begged and love said, "No"

Love said, "No"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 3

Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights

This was probably the hardest album to work with. (Like Ville says.) This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

Salt In Our Wounds

"Love is insane and Baby we are too"

"It's our hearts little grave"

"And the salt in our wounds"

Heartache Every Moment

"From lashes to ashes and from lust to dust"

"In your sweetest torment I'm lost"

"it's heartache every moment"

"Deeper into our heavenly suffering"

"Cause there's no smile of an angel without the wrath of god"

Loose You Tonight

"Don't run away cause I can't live without you"

"Please stay and I'll learn to love you right."

"I was waiting for you"

"Waiting for all my life."

"I'm not going to lose you tonight"

In Joy And Sorrow

"Oh girl we are the same, we are young and lost and so afraid"

"All our prayers seem to fail"

"In joy and sorrow my home's in your arms"

Pretending

"Love is a flame that can't be tamed"

"We are not the ones to blame"

"Trust is a word all lovers know"

"The more we have the more we want"

"Keep on pretending"

"Our heaven is worth the waiting"

"It will be the end of our craving"

Close To The Flame

"The kiss sweetest and touch so warm"

"So close to the flame"

You Are The One

"No I won't surrender at any cost"

"You're something so sweet and tender"

"Yes I've done my evil"

"I've done my good"

"You are the one and there's no regrets at all"

Please Don't Let It Go

"We're drifting apart"

"But I want you to know wherever you are I belong"

"Wherever you go I will follow"

"Please don't let it go"

Beautiful

"Just one look into your eyes

One look and I'm crying

'Cause you're so beautiful"

"Just one touch and I'm on fire"

"One touch and I'm crying 'cause you're so beautiful"

In Love And Lonely

"I'm in love with you not the tears in your eyes"

"In love and lonely"

Don't Close Your Heart

"I know how it feels to be on your own"

"In this cruel world where hearts are bound to turn to stone"

"just don't close your heart"

Love You Like I Do

"No one will love you the way I do"

"No one will love you"

"Love you like I do"

Again

"And I feel despair kissing our lips again"

"And I feel despair holding our hearts again"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 2

Razorblade Romance

This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

I Love You (Prelude to Tragedy)

"the harder I try the more we grow apart"

"I see it in your eyes"

"I feel it in your touch"

"I taste it from your lips"

"And baby more i love you"

"The closer I get the more you're out of love"

"The colder your touch the more it turns me on"

Poison Girl

"I did it all just for her"

"And the taste of the poison on her lips is of a tomb"

"Just me and my poison girl"

"And love's heart is death"

Join Me In Death

"Baby join me in death"

"Won't you die tonight for love"

"This world is a cruel place and we're here only to lose"

"this life ain't worth living"

Right Here In My Arms

"She's smiling like heaven is down on earth"

"She'll be right here in my arms so in love"

"She'll be right here in these arms"

"She can't let go"

Gone With The Sin

"how beautiful you are"

"You're gone with the sin my Baby and beautiful you are"

"I worship your lips once red as wine."

"I crave for your scent sending shivers down my spine."

Razorblade Kiss

"I taste death in every kiss we share"

"Every sundown seems to be the last we have."

"Your breath on my skin has the scent of our end."

"Every time we touch we get closer to heaven"

"And at every sunrise our sins are forgiven"

"You on my skin this must be the end"

"The only way you can love me is to hurt me again"

"Your love is a razorblade kiss"

"Sweetest is the taste from your lips"

"Only inside you, I'm free"

"I'm tired of waiting"

"You've got to let me dream"

"Inside you, Baby"

"I'm not afraid to feel"

"I want your to love me"

"Cause you are the one"

Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart

"All I ever wanted was you, my love"

"You're all I ever wanted, just you"

"Let me never see the sun"

"And never see you smile"

"Let us be so dead and so gone"

"So far away from life"

"Just close my eyes"

"Hold me tight"

"Bury me deep inside your heart"

"My heart stops beating only for you"

Heaven Tonight

"I hold your hand and you're so lonely"

"Your eyes have lost their light"

"You are my heaven tonight"

"Trying to find the heart you hide"

"And you're my heaven in life"

"I'm in love with you."

Death Is In Love With Us

"But in your misery, you're not alone"

"It's not our fault if Death's in love with us"

Resurrection

"There was a time when I could breathe my life in you"

"You smiled like an angel"

"We've been slaves to this love from the moment we touched"

One Last Time

"Is it so hard to believe our hearts are made to be broken by love?"

"Oh, at least you could try"

"For this one last time:

"Let me just to be closer"

"Let me fall into your arms:

"Let me close to your heart:"

Sigillum Diaboli

"I can't see your sad face and your pitiful eyes"

"Don't have the strength to carry your heavy load of life"

"I'm your Christ and I want you"

"This world's meant for us and you know it as well as I do"

"I'm your Christ and you want more"

[duchessofvaujours]

HIM lyric starters. Vol. 1

Greatest Lovesongs, Vol. 666

This was made as a tribute to my favorite band. Feel free to manipulate these in any way, to change pronouns, add more, anything you'd like! Be aware of the themes in the album, drug use, suicide, death, and the like.

For You (Intro)

"In the grace of your love I writhe, writhe in pain"

"In 666 ways I love you and I hope you feel the same"

"I'm killing myself for your love and again all is lost"

"In 777 ways I love you 'til my death do us apart"

"I'm for you"

"and I'm dying for your love"

"my heaven is wherever you are"

"In 666 ways I love you and my heaven is wherever you are"

"I'm here for you"

Your Sweet Six Six Six

"There are things you should know"

"The distance between us seems to grow"

"Oh how hard it's to let go"

"I'm longing for your touch"

"I'm losing my faith in you"

"How long we have to wait"

"For love is fading so slowly"

"I know it's too late"

"Oh my god you're so lonely"

Wicked Game

"The world was on fire, no one could save me but you"

"It's strange what desire will make foolish people do"

"What a wicked game to play to make me feel this way"

"What a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you"

"What a wicked thing to say you never felt this way"

"No I don't wanna fall in love"

"this world is only gonna break your heart"

"nobody loves no one"

The Heartless

"Your pain ain't love"

"Can't you see he's the heartless"

"You're the one for me"

"Can't you see he's the heartless and you're one of a kind"

"Your pain won't ever be love"

Our Diabolikal Rapture

"In our diabolikal rapture we live on and on"

"Your love is the only thing I live for in this world" 

"Oh how I wait for the day your heart burns"

"In these heavenly flames I've already scorched in" 

"I just want you to know I'll always be waiting"

It's All Tears

"I'm waiting for you to drown in my love so open your arms"

"I'm waiting for you to open your arms and drown in this love"

"Open your arms and let me show you what love can be like"

"It's all tears and it will be 'til the end of your time"

"Come closer my love"

When Love and Death Embrace

"I'm in love with you and it's crushing my heart"

"All I want is you to take me into your arms"

"When love and death embrace."

"I love you and you're crushing my heart"

"I need you."

"Please take me into your arms"

The Beginning Of The End

"Your world is coming to its end"

"But you don't have to be afraid - I'm here for you"

"Save your happiness for tomorrow"

"And today we'll drown in your tears"

"A drop of your blood tastes like wine today"

"Will you let it rain"

[violasmirabiles]

HIM: All Lips Go Blue (2013) 

I read the words on torn down walls  reminding me how much I loved you

[duchessofvaujours]

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[madamehenriette]

rpmemesfam:

THE TUDORS SENTENCE STARTERS.

’ You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. ’ ’ To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning. ’ ’ I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. ’ ’ Well, you’re going to have to. ’ ’ What about his legs? Are his calves strong like mine? ’ ’ Some people might think so. He certainly thinks so himself. ’ ’ Your Majesty… he’s French! ’ ’ As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war. ’ ’ It’s an activity fit only for beasts yet practiced by no kind of beasts so constantly as by man. ’ ’ As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I’m forced to disagree. ’ ’ You should know, you taught me. ’ ’ Do you really think we should go to war? ’ ’ I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do. ’ ’ What if the King doesn’t know what’s in his best interests? ’ ’ Because he endowed Universities? ’ ’ That victory made him famous. It made him immortal! ’ ’ There’s something deep and dangerous in you. ’ ’ Those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul. ’ ’ You must be prepared to give him the thing you most care for. ’ ’ The thing I care for most is my integrity. ’ ’ Do you see that young woman over there? Dressed in purple and gold? ’ ’ After all, I am merely Your Majesty’s humble servant! ’ ’ That would make me very happy. ’ ’ Well, do you like it? ’ ’ Should I like something that accuses me of being cruel? ’ ’ Am I? You have no claim on me. ’ ’ I have the same claim as every other lover. ’ ’ You are a poet as I am a woman. ’ ’ Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not? ’ ’ You give us no choice but to attack and breach your defenses! ’ ’ No knight shall ever breach mine. ’ ’ What we lack in men, we can more than make up for in ships. ’ ’ We are in an island race, Cardinal. ’ ’ We have the best and bravest sailors in the world. ’ ’ Your highness must be looking forward with great anticipation to your wedding? ’ ’ I hear the king was a great horseman… in his time. ’ ’ Don’t tease me. I don’t like it. ’ ’ Will you like it when an old man tries to make love to you? ’ ’ Your grace goes too far. Already. ’ ’ Now you are blasphemous! ’ ’ Gospel says the truth will make you free. ’ ’ Your Grace, we shall drop our truth into the scales… and the scales will fall. ’ ’ I write poems, I don’t know how to be “a poet”. ’ ’ My Lord, I don’t know what to say. ’ ’ Of course I loved her, but from a distance. ’ ’ I ask myself why that should be so. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I’m certain he will rule in your favour. ’ ’ How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! ’ ’ You are both banished from court. ’ ’ You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand? ’ ’ I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter. ’ ’ I don’t think the English people would ever forgive him! ’ ’ I promise, I’ll take you as my only mistress. ’ ’ I won’t have a thought or an affection for anyone else. ’ ’ Look, I don’t mean he is banished forever. ’ ’ I don’t mean he is banished forever. Just as long as he breathes. ’ ’ You’re going away, why? ’ ’ Must you go? ’ ’ We little people must put our hands into the fire if invited to. ’ ’ Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not. ’ ’ For me, that is the true definition of love. ’ ’ I have an audience with His Majesty? ’ ’ Well, the King is plainly in love with you. ’ ’ What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king? ’ ’ How do you like your charge, sweetheart? ’ ’ It is your duty to use his love to our advantage. ’ ’ Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity. ’ ’ I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married. ’ ’ Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce… ’ ’ Someone told me taking infusions was the worst thing. ’ ’ I didn’t see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him. ’ ’ I do believe you love as well and deeply… as any man. ’ ’ Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King’s will. ’ ’ You speak to me of chastity. ’ ’ Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence? ’ ’ I could be seen to be acting against her conjugal rights. ’ ’ You think it’s nothing, to go back to bed with your wife? ’ ’ What do you think is going to happen? ’ ’ Let me make certain things plain to you. ’ ’ It would mean the total ruin of the kingdom. ’ ’ I hear you’ve been unwell? Is it true? ’ ’ Majesty, when was I ever unwell enough not to serve you? ’ ’ Have you no kind things to say? ’ ’ You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. ’ ’ The weight of academic opinion is against us. ’ ’ I don’t think anything, but I imagine everything. ’ ’ Do you… do you have a message from the King? ’ ’ You hate him like a scorpion. And why? ’ ’ Madam, you should never presume… ’ ’ You should not abuse the Queen’s honor with such language! ’ ’ Your Majesty must forgive me… ’ ’ I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress! ’ ’ Aren’t you supposed to be running the country? ’ ’ They’re all liars, hypocrites and middle-aged men. ’ ’ Would you prefer them to be women? ’ ’ Have I made you unhappy? ’ ’ I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me. ’ ’ Madame, I pray you, don’t give way. ’ ’ No excellency, I shall never give way. ’ ’ I notice you allow yourself none of the trappings of your great office. ’ ’ Now, my love, let me conceive… and we will have a son. ’ ’ Can you not plead some indisposition? ’ ’ And then, I should be genuinely indisposed! ’ ’ It’s a pretty head in any case, and I don’t want to lose it either. ’ ’ Perhaps, one day this little girl will preside over empires. ’ ’ I’m not heartless, whatever some people think- quite the contrary. ’ ’ I could still do it. I could find a way to poison her. ’ ’ But, why should anyone ever know? ’ ’ No I wouldn’t. I’d die amartyr's death. ’ ’ You understand? You don’t act alone. ’ ’ You’ve never even seen a man being tortured, have you? ’ ’ I’m sure we both know the object that has brought us together. ’ ’ Will you take the Oath? ’

[nellygwyn]

Louis XIV fell in love with Versailles and Louise de La Vallière at the same time: Versailles was the love of his life. For years before he lived there, it was never out of his mind. When he was at the seat of government or away on hunting visits or with his army at the front, he had to be sent a daily report on the work in hand on his house down to the tiniest details; and he never stopped adding to and improving the place while there was breath in his body. This ‘undeserving favourite’ as the courtiers called it is part of his legend but in fact, the Sun King only lived there during the meridian and the sunset years: in his great morning he held his court, consisting of a few dozen officials, at the Louvre and Saint-Germain-en-Laye where he was born, with visits to Chambord, Fontainebleau and Vicennes. Like a feudal King, he was always on the move, generally at war, and his court was a bivouac between two campaigns. Nobody ever knew when this secret man first conceived the design by which his father’s little hunting lodge was to become the hub of the universe, perhaps as early as 1661 when he began to give parties in the gardens there for his young mistress [Louise de la Vallière] and a band of friends, whose average age at that time was nineteen. Louis was twenty-three, had been married for a year and already had a son, but his kingdom had hitherto been governed by Cardinal Mazarin, his godfather; and his behaviour was still regulated by his mother, Queen Anne of Austria. He liked to disport himself away from the eye of the older generation and Versailles was a perfect place in which to do so, though the parties there had to take place in the garden; the house was much too small. The weather was always fine in those happy young days, the freshness of the evening a welcome change from the heat of noon.

The Sun King // Nancy Mitford (via beau--brummell)

[madamehenriette]

rpmemesfam:

THE TUDORS SENTENCE STARTERS.

’ You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. ’ ’ To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning. ’ ’ I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. ’ ’ Well, you’re going to have to. ’ ’ What about his legs? Are his calves strong like mine? ’ ’ Some people might think so. He certainly thinks so himself. ’ ’ Your Majesty… he’s French! ’ ’ As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war. ’ ’ It’s an activity fit only for beasts yet practiced by no kind of beasts so constantly as by man. ’ ’ As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I’m forced to disagree. ’ ’ You should know, you taught me. ’ ’ Do you really think we should go to war? ’ ’ I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do. ’ ’ What if the King doesn’t know what’s in his best interests? ’ ’ Because he endowed Universities? ’ ’ That victory made him famous. It made him immortal! ’ ’ There’s something deep and dangerous in you. ’ ’ Those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul. ’ ’ You must be prepared to give him the thing you most care for. ’ ’ The thing I care for most is my integrity. ’ ’ Do you see that young woman over there? Dressed in purple and gold? ’ ’ After all, I am merely Your Majesty’s humble servant! ’ ’ That would make me very happy. ’ ’ Well, do you like it? ’ ’ Should I like something that accuses me of being cruel? ’ ’ Am I? You have no claim on me. ’ ’ I have the same claim as every other lover. ’ ’ You are a poet as I am a woman. ’ ’ Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not? ’ ’ You give us no choice but to attack and breach your defenses! ’ ’ No knight shall ever breach mine. ’ ’ What we lack in men, we can more than make up for in ships. ’ ’ We are in an island race, Cardinal. ’ ’ We have the best and bravest sailors in the world. ’ ’ Your highness must be looking forward with great anticipation to your wedding? ’ ’ I hear the king was a great horseman… in his time. ’ ’ Don’t tease me. I don’t like it. ’ ’ Will you like it when an old man tries to make love to you? ’ ’ Your grace goes too far. Already. ’ ’ Now you are blasphemous! ’ ’ Gospel says the truth will make you free. ’ ’ Your Grace, we shall drop our truth into the scales… and the scales will fall. ’ ’ I write poems, I don’t know how to be “a poet”. ’ ’ My Lord, I don’t know what to say. ’ ’ Of course I loved her, but from a distance. ’ ’ I ask myself why that should be so. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I’m certain he will rule in your favour. ’ ’ How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! ’ ’ You are both banished from court. ’ ’ You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand? ’ ’ I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter. ’ ’ I don’t think the English people would ever forgive him! ’ ’ I promise, I’ll take you as my only mistress. ’ ’ I won’t have a thought or an affection for anyone else. ’ ’ Look, I don’t mean he is banished forever. ’ ’ I don’t mean he is banished forever. Just as long as he breathes. ’ ’ You’re going away, why? ’ ’ Must you go? ’ ’ We little people must put our hands into the fire if invited to. ’ ’ Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not. ’ ’ For me, that is the true definition of love. ’ ’ I have an audience with His Majesty? ’ ’ Well, the King is plainly in love with you. ’ ’ What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king? ’ ’ How do you like your charge, sweetheart? ’ ’ It is your duty to use his love to our advantage. ’ ’ Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity. ’ ’ I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married. ’ ’ Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce… ’ ’ Someone told me taking infusions was the worst thing. ’ ’ I didn’t see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him. ’ ’ I do believe you love as well and deeply… as any man. ’ ’ Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King’s will. ’ ’ You speak to me of chastity. ’ ’ Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence? ’ ’ I could be seen to be acting against her conjugal rights. ’ ’ You think it’s nothing, to go back to bed with your wife? ’ ’ What do you think is going to happen? ’ ’ Let me make certain things plain to you. ’ ’ It would mean the total ruin of the kingdom. ’ ’ I hear you’ve been unwell? Is it true? ’ ’ Majesty, when was I ever unwell enough not to serve you? ’ ’ Have you no kind things to say? ’ ’ You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. ’ ’ The weight of academic opinion is against us. ’ ’ I don’t think anything, but I imagine everything. ’ ’ Do you… do you have a message from the King? ’ ’ You hate him like a scorpion. And why? ’ ’ Madam, you should never presume… ’ ’ You should not abuse the Queen’s honor with such language! ’ ’ Your Majesty must forgive me… ’ ’ I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress! ’ ’ Aren’t you supposed to be running the country? ’ ’ They’re all liars, hypocrites and middle-aged men. ’ ’ Would you prefer them to be women? ’ ’ Have I made you unhappy? ’ ’ I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me. ’ ’ Madame, I pray you, don’t give way. ’ ’ No excellency, I shall never give way. ’ ’ I notice you allow yourself none of the trappings of your great office. ’ ’ Now, my love, let me conceive… and we will have a son. ’ ’ Can you not plead some indisposition? ’ ’ And then, I should be genuinely indisposed! ’ ’ It’s a pretty head in any case, and I don’t want to lose it either. ’ ’ Perhaps, one day this little girl will preside over empires. ’ ’ I’m not heartless, whatever some people think- quite the contrary. ’ ’ I could still do it. I could find a way to poison her. ’ ’ But, why should anyone ever know? ’ ’ No I wouldn’t. I’d die amartyr's death. ’ ’ You understand? You don’t act alone. ’ ’ You’ve never even seen a man being tortured, have you? ’ ’ I’m sure we both know the object that has brought us together. ’ ’ Will you take the Oath? ’

[mandsukic]

Sarah Gadon in Belle 2013

[narcissamacaulays]

                        —  SARAH GADON as Elizabeth Murray in BELLE ( 2013 )

[madamehenriette]

rpmemesfam:

THE TUDORS SENTENCE STARTERS.

’ You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. ’ ’ To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning. ’ ’ I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. ’ ’ Well, you’re going to have to. ’ ’ What about his legs? Are his calves strong like mine? ’ ’ Some people might think so. He certainly thinks so himself. ’ ’ Your Majesty… he’s French! ’ ’ As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war. ’ ’ It’s an activity fit only for beasts yet practiced by no kind of beasts so constantly as by man. ’ ’ As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I’m forced to disagree. ’ ’ You should know, you taught me. ’ ’ Do you really think we should go to war? ’ ’ I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do. ’ ’ What if the King doesn’t know what’s in his best interests? ’ ’ Because he endowed Universities? ’ ’ That victory made him famous. It made him immortal! ’ ’ There’s something deep and dangerous in you. ’ ’ Those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul. ’ ’ You must be prepared to give him the thing you most care for. ’ ’ The thing I care for most is my integrity. ’ ’ Do you see that young woman over there? Dressed in purple and gold? ’ ’ After all, I am merely Your Majesty’s humble servant! ’ ’ That would make me very happy. ’ ’ Well, do you like it? ’ ’ Should I like something that accuses me of being cruel? ’ ’ Am I? You have no claim on me. ’ ’ I have the same claim as every other lover. ’ ’ You are a poet as I am a woman. ’ ’ Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not? ’ ’ You give us no choice but to attack and breach your defenses! ’ ’ No knight shall ever breach mine. ’ ’ What we lack in men, we can more than make up for in ships. ’ ’ We are in an island race, Cardinal. ’ ’ We have the best and bravest sailors in the world. ’ ’ Your highness must be looking forward with great anticipation to your wedding? ’ ’ I hear the king was a great horseman… in his time. ’ ’ Don’t tease me. I don’t like it. ’ ’ Will you like it when an old man tries to make love to you? ’ ’ Your grace goes too far. Already. ’ ’ Now you are blasphemous! ’ ’ Gospel says the truth will make you free. ’ ’ Your Grace, we shall drop our truth into the scales… and the scales will fall. ’ ’ I write poems, I don’t know how to be “a poet”. ’ ’ My Lord, I don’t know what to say. ’ ’ Of course I loved her, but from a distance. ’ ’ I ask myself why that should be so. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I’m certain he will rule in your favour. ’ ’ How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! ’ ’ You are both banished from court. ’ ’ You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand? ’ ’ I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter. ’ ’ I don’t think the English people would ever forgive him! ’ ’ I promise, I’ll take you as my only mistress. ’ ’ I won’t have a thought or an affection for anyone else. ’ ’ Look, I don’t mean he is banished forever. ’ ’ I don’t mean he is banished forever. Just as long as he breathes. ’ ’ You’re going away, why? ’ ’ Must you go? ’ ’ We little people must put our hands into the fire if invited to. ’ ’ Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not. ’ ’ For me, that is the true definition of love. ’ ’ I have an audience with His Majesty? ’ ’ Well, the King is plainly in love with you. ’ ’ What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king? ’ ’ How do you like your charge, sweetheart? ’ ’ It is your duty to use his love to our advantage. ’ ’ Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity. ’ ’ I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married. ’ ’ Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce… ’ ’ Someone told me taking infusions was the worst thing. ’ ’ I didn’t see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him. ’ ’ I do believe you love as well and deeply… as any man. ’ ’ Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful. ’ ’ Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King’s will. ’ ’ You speak to me of chastity. ’ ’ Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence? ’ ’ I could be seen to be acting against her conjugal rights. ’ ’ You think it’s nothing, to go back to bed with your wife? ’ ’ What do you think is going to happen? ’ ’ Let me make certain things plain to you. ’ ’ It would mean the total ruin of the kingdom. ’ ’ I hear you’ve been unwell? Is it true? ’ ’ Majesty, when was I ever unwell enough not to serve you? ’ ’ Have you no kind things to say? ’ ’ You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. ’ ’ The weight of academic opinion is against us. ’ ’ I don’t think anything, but I imagine everything. ’ ’ Do you… do you have a message from the King? ’ ’ You hate him like a scorpion. And why? ’ ’ Madam, you should never presume… ’ ’ You should not abuse the Queen’s honor with such language! ’ ’ Your Majesty must forgive me… ’ ’ I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress! ’ ’ Aren’t you supposed to be running the country? ’ ’ They’re all liars, hypocrites and middle-aged men. ’ ’ Would you prefer them to be women? ’ ’ Have I made you unhappy? ’ ’ I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me. ’ ’ Madame, I pray you, don’t give way. ’ ’ No excellency, I shall never give way. ’ ’ I notice you allow yourself none of the trappings of your great office. ’ ’ Now, my love, let me conceive… and we will have a son. ’ ’ Can you not plead some indisposition? ’ ’ And then, I should be genuinely indisposed! ’ ’ It’s a pretty head in any case, and I don’t want to lose it either. ’ ’ Perhaps, one day this little girl will preside over empires. ’ ’ I’m not heartless, whatever some people think- quite the contrary. ’ ’ I could still do it. I could find a way to poison her. ’ ’ But, why should anyone ever know? ’ ’ No I wouldn’t. I’d die amartyr's death. ’ ’ You understand? You don’t act alone. ’ ’ You’ve never even seen a man being tortured, have you? ’ ’ I’m sure we both know the object that has brought us together. ’ ’ Will you take the Oath? ’

[fysarahgadon]