Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin…

“I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.”

— William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.

— William Shakespeare

“Mea Culpa. By That Sin Fell the Angels. Exuro, Exuro, Exuro.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with the other fling it at thy face.

— William Shakespeare

“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

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