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title: "49 Cromwell Quotes by 34 authors"
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> [Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/richard-cromwell-was-not-fit-to-wear-the-mantle-of-his-uncle/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [“Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-colbert/oliver-cromwell-can-kiss-my-singing-emerald-scrotum/)

[Stephen Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-colbert/)

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> [I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-bannon/i-am-thomas-cromwell-in-the-court-of-the-tudors/)

[Steve Bannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-bannon/)

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> [Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-putin/cromwell-is-just-as-much-of-a-bloody-dictator-as-was-stalin/)

[Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-putin/)

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> [Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/cromwell-i-charge-thee-fling-away-ambition-by-that-sin-fell-the-angels/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather’s pet monkey.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lloyd/as-a-baby-oliver-cromwell-was-abducted-by-his-grandfather-s-pet-monkey/)

[John Lloyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lloyd/)

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> [I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-lloyd/i-m-one-of-the-ruins-that-cromwell-knocked-about-a-bit/)

[Marie Lloyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-lloyd/)

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> [After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-fraser/after-mary-queen-of-scots-i-turned-to-the-farthest-subject-possible/)

[Antonia Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonia-fraser/)

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> [“A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;" Cromwell of Wriothesley”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/a-generation-back-his-family-were-called-writh-but-they-thought-an/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-got-four-volumes-of-the-letters-and-speeches-of-oliver-cromwell-he/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [“Without Oliver Cromwell there might well have not been a Parliament to which Our Sovereign Lady might make her gracious address.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/without-oliver-cromwell-there-might-well-have-not-been-a-parliament/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a . . . person? It isn’t as if you could afford to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/damn-it-all-cromwell-why-are-you-such-a-person-it-isn-t-as-if-you/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gray/some-village-hampden-that-with-dauntless-breast-the-little-tyrant-of/)

[Thomas Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gray/)

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> [ Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — \['Treason!' cried the Speaker\] — may profit by… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-henry/caesar-had-his-brutus-charles-the-first-his-cromwell-and-george-the/)

[Patrick Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-henry/)

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> [The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-schama/the-irony-about-charles-ii-is-not-that-he-came-to-the-throne-because/)

[Simon Schama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-schama/)

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> [“Why did you let her take the head off London Bridge?" Cromwell:"You know me, Stephen. The fluid of benevolence flows through my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/why-did-you-let-her-take-the-head-off-london-bridge-cromwell-you-know/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-hutton/what-is-unique-about-drogheda-is-the-very-large-number-of-protestants/)

[Ronald Hutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-hutton/)

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> [“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/he-looked-the-prince-up-and-down-like-a-hangman-taking-his/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [“...Cromwell informed me I’d only have the keys to my car once I’d earned his trust back. His trust? Like I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-l-armentrout/cromwell-informed-me-i-d-only-have-the-keys-to-my-car-once-i-d-earned/)

[Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-l-armentrout/)

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> [“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/cromwell-suppose-you-d-been-away-from-england-for-seven-years-if-you/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/in-a-balkan-country-not-so-many-years-ago-a-party-which-had-been/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/when-i-see-that-the-nineteenth-century-has-crowned-the-idolatry-of/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-colley/from-the-15th-century-to-1688-england-and-wales-like-scotland-had/)

[Linda Colley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-colley/)

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> [There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-acton/there-is-no-error-so-monstrous-that-it-fails-to-find-defenders-among/)

[Lord Acton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-acton/)

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> [Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-wills/oliver-cromwell-1599-1658-moved-from-a-legitimate-to-a-charismatic/)

[Garry Wills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garry-wills/)

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> [When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/when-i-came-to-write-my-thomas-cromwell-books-i-moved-onto-the-center/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-schama/taxation-the-very-thing-that-had-triggered-the-british-civil-wars/)

[Simon Schama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-schama/)

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> [Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-masur/very-interesting-show-it-s-hotel-with-the-e-missing-hot-l-baltimore/)

[Richard Masur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-masur/)

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> [“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/in-the-forest-you-may-find-yourself-lost-without-companions-you-may/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jenks/the-little-or-barebones-parliament-summoned-by-oliver-cromwell-to/)

[Edward Jenks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jenks/)

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> [“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/thomas-cromwell-is-now-about-fifty-years-old-he-has-a-labourer-s-body/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [“Rumours crop in the short summer nights. Dawn finds them like mushrooms in the damp grass. Members of Thomas Cromwell's household have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/rumours-crop-in-the-short-summer-nights-dawn-finds-them-like/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-w-tuchman/cromwell-the-door-was-flung-open-in-stalked-the-protector-disgusted/)

[Barbara W. Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-w-tuchman/)

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> [“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/the-house-had-a-name-and-a-history-the-old-gentleman-taking-his-tea/)

[Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/)

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> [It is a total treat to get to work with James Cromwell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-pace/it-is-a-total-treat-to-get-to-work-with-james-cromwell/)

[Lee Pace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-pace/)

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> [When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/when-cromwell-instructed-his-portraitist-to-paint-him-warts-and-all/)

[Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/)

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> [“He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/he-cromwell-says-to-his-visitors-just-tell-them-this-and-tell-them/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/you-ask-what-i-have-found-and-far-and-wide-i-go-nothing-but-cromwell/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-de-lamartine/the-greatness-of-a-popular-character-is-less-according-to-the-ratio/)

[Alphonse de Lamartine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-de-lamartine/)

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> [One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/one-of-the-frustrations-of-someone-like-thomas-cromwell-is-that/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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## Top authors on Cromwell

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hilary-mantel-42016.jpg) Hilary Mantel 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cromwell/hilary-mantel/)

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                        "text": "Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the \"train bands\" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.",
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                        "text": "When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.",
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                        "text": "Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.",
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                        "text": "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 residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.",
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                        "text": "“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map. You may lose sight of your quarry, and forget why you are there. You may meet a dwarf, or the living Christ, or an old enemy of yours; or a new enemy, one you do not know until you see his face appear between the rustling leaves, and see the glint of his dagger. You may find a woman asleep in a bower of leaves. For a moment, before you don’t recognise her, you will think she is someone you know.”",
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                        "text": "“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now, and because of his impermeable skin, which seems designed to resist rain as well as sun, people sneer that his father was an Irishman, though really he was a brewer and a blacksmith at Putney, a shearsman too, a man with a finger in every pie, a scrapper and a brawler, a drunk and a bully, a man often hauled before the justices for punching someone, for cheating someone. How the son of such a man has achieved his present eminence is a question all Europe asks.”",
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                        "text": "“Rumours crop in the short summer nights. Dawn finds them like mushrooms in the damp grass. Members of Thomas Cromwell's household have been seeking a midwife in the small hours of the morning. He is hiding a woman at some country house of his, a foreign woman who has given him a daughter. Whatever you do, he says to Rafe, don't defend my honour. I have women like that all over the place. They will believe it, Rafe says. The word in the city is that Thomas Cromwell has a prodigious… Memory, he says. I have a very large ledger. A huge filing system, in which are recorded (under their name, and also under their offence) the details of people who have cut across me.”",
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                        "text": "You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?",
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