Oliver Cromwell Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a . . . person? It isn’t as if you could afford to be.”

— Hilary Mantel

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell…

— Steven Morrissey

“I know what you’re thinking, Miss Gladstone.” She doubted it. “You’re incredulous. How could a woman of your standing possibly ascend to such a…

— Tessa Dare

“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.”

— P G Wodehouse

“Oh, dear, she thought, this is probably more democracy than an Englishman can stand.”

— Carla Kelly

“What of the Parliament? Or the succession of the marquessate?" "Don't you see?" He shook his head, searching for the words, he who was…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever…

— Maryrose Wood

“Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!”

— Stephen Colbert

“May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased…

— William Lenthall

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“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

“This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed…

— Emily Brontë