Quote by Hilary Mantel

“it’s just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it’s quite difficult, sir, to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“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

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? -…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

— Marie Lloyd

“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

“...Cromwell informed me I’d only have the keys to my car once I’d earned his trust back. His trust? Like I was the creeptastic…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

— Steve Bannon

“Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met…

— Sharon Kay Penman

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Why did you let her take the head off London Bridge?" Cromwell:"You know me, Stephen. The fluid of benevolence flows through my veins and…

— Hilary Mantel