He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking…

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.”

— John Lloyd

“Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage…

— Hilary Mantel

“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to the point,…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Right, Thomas Cromwell," she said. "Make a note of this. No strange Dutch drinks. No women. No banned preachers in cellars. I know what…

— Hilary Mantel

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

— Antonia Fraser

In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved…

— Bertrand Russell

“Why did you let her take the head off London Bridge?" Cromwell:"You know me, Stephen. The fluid of benevolence flows through my veins and…

— Hilary Mantel

“A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;" Cromwell of Wriothesley”

— Hilary Mantel

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by…

— Marilynne Robinson

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a…

— Richard Masur

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is…

— Mark Steyn

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

— Marie Lloyd