After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.” — John Lloyd 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
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
“Why did you let her take the head off London Bridge?" Cromwell:"You know me, Stephen. The fluid of benevolence flows through my… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;" Cromwell of Wriothesley” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a . . . person? It isn’t as if you could afford to be.” — 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
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'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
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
“He, Cromwell, watches. They are not the same couple from day to day: sometimes doting, sometimes chilly and distanced. The billing and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the… — Hilary Mantel 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
“Right, Thomas Cromwell," she said. "Make a note of this. No strange Dutch drinks. No women. No banned preachers in cellars. I… — Hilary Mantel 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
“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said.… — 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
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
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 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
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 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
“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to… — Barbara W. Tuchman 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
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
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ... — William Shakespeare 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 informed me I’d only have the keys to my car once I’d earned his trust back. His trust? Like I was… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley 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
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