Why did you let her take the head off London Bridge?"…

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

“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said. 'You are…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“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