Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
