“Printer to the Queen.”
Signature on the Proclamation of the accession of Lady Jane Grey (1553). This declaration turned out to be a poor decision, as Grafton was cast into prison when Mary I took the throne unopposed after Lady Jane's nine day rule.
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Printer in the Tudor era 1511–1572Related quotes
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
Of Books.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.”
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Context: Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
"Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren
1730s
Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama (20 November 1995)
As quoted in The Guardian (8 June 1983). p. 82
Attributed
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962); page 27.
About Queen Victoria
Source: Letter to William Chillingworth (15 September 1637), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume V—History of His Chancellorship, &c (1853), p. 184