When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him…

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

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

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

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

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

— Hilary Mantel

“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

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

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

— Antonia Fraser

“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

“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

“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

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

— John Lloyd

“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

“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

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

— Marie Lloyd