Oliver Cromwell Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“Without Oliver Cromwell there might well have not been a Parliament to which Our Sovereign Lady might make her gracious address.”

— Christopher Hitchens

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.…

— William Shakespeare

One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver Our puissance into the hand of God, Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea; the signs…

— William Shakespeare

“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,…

— Hilary Mantel

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

— George Fetherling

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall,…

— William Shakespeare

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with…

— William Shakespeare

“Of France and England, did this king succeed; Whose state so many had the managing. That they lost France and made his England bleed.”

— William Shakespeare

“I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go…

— Anonymous