Cromwell Quotes

• Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

  Thomas Gray

  Country, Blood, Tyrants

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 57 (1751)

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• La ironía sobre Carlos II no es que llegara al trono porque Inglaterra necesitara un sucesor de Carlos I, sino porque Inglaterra necesitaba un sucesor de Oliver Cromwell.

  Simon Schama

  History, England, Thrones

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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 alone is morbid and unhealthy.

  Mark Steyn

  History, Half, Morbid

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• César tuvo a su Bruto, Carlos I a su Cromwell; y Jorge III - ["¡Traición!", gritó el orador] - puede beneficiarse de su ejemplo. Si esto es traición, aprovechadlo al máximo.

  Patrick Henry

  History, Brutus, Firsts

  Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.

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• He estado soñando con una época en la que
  Los ingleses estén hartos de laboristas y conservadores
  Y escupan sobre el nombre de Oliver Cromwell y denuncien esta línea real que aún lo saluda
  Y lo saludará por siempre.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sueño, Nombres, Enfermo

  "Canción: 'Sangre irlandesa, corazón inglés'". 2004.

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• La sociedad es una ilusión para el joven ciudadano. Está ante él en rígido reposo, con ciertos nombres, hombres e instituciones, arraigados como robles al centro, alrededor de los cuales todos se organizan lo mejor que pueden. Pero el viejo estadista sabe que la sociedad es fluida; no hay tales raíces y centros; pero cualquier partícula puede convertirse repentinamente en el centro del movimiento, y obligar al sistema a girar a su alrededor, como todo hombre de fuerte voluntad, como Pisístrato, o Cromwell, lo hace por un tiempo, y todo hombre de verdad, como Plato, o Pablo, lo hace para siempre.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Plato, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.161, Graphic Arts Books

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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 well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Kings, Frustration, Light

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

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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 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.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, Somewhere Else

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

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• It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making it up. But I try to make it up based on what is on the record. So even my wildest speculations [on Thomas Cromwell] will have a root somewhere.

  Hilary Mantel

  Roots, Trying, Records

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

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• Un espectáculo muy interesante. Es "Hotel" sin la E. Hot L Baltimore. Se trataba de un hotel en ruinas que se había convertido en una especie de residencial no del todo bienestar, pero casi bienestar hotel con una colección muy bizarro de people.The recepcionista fue interpretado por Jamie Cromwell. Fue su primer gran papel. Conchata Ferrell interpretaba a April, la principal de las dos prostitutas, y mi personaje no existía en el espectáculo.

  Richard Masur

  Carácter, Dos, Personas

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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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 oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Sides, Four, Letters

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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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 election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Party, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.136, Routledge

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• Richard Cromwell no era apto para llevar el manto de su tío.

  John F. Kennedy

  Uncles, Fit

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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• Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

  Robertson Davies

  Hands, Restoration, Dirt

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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 and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant

  Ronald Hutton

  War, Fighting, Unique

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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 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.

  Simon Schama

  War, Two, America

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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 prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

  Alfonso de Lamartine

  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

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• No hay error tan monstruoso que no encuentre defensores entre los hombres más capaces. Imaginemos un congreso de eminentes personalidades, como Moro, Bacon, Grocio, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleón, Pitt, etc. El resultado sería una Enciclopedia del Error.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Errors, Etc

  "Cartas de Lord Acton a Mary Gladstone". Libro de John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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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 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.

  Garry Wills

  Religious, Military, Army

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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 and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, House, Dancer

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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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 at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.

  Linda Colley

  War, Successful, Games

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press

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• El "Pequeño" o "Barebones" Parlamento, convocado por Oliver Cromwell para reunirse en Westminster el 4 th Of July de 1653, después de la disolución de los restos del Parlamento Largo, puede haber sido un cuerpo poco práctico, en lo que respecta a la tarea de la administración en tiempos difíciles. Pero parece muy posible que el cúmulo de contumias y desprecios que se han vertido sobre él se debieran, en su origen, tanto a la feroz ira de los intereses creados contra la crítica franca, como a cualquier vaguedad real o falta de sabiduría práctica en los planes de la propia Cámara.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, 4 th Of July, Largo

  "A Short History Of The English Law" de Edward Jenks. Primera edición, cap. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.

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• Se ha observado que casi todos los personajes que han despertado la atención o la compasión han debido parte de su éxito al mérito, y parte a una feliz concurrencia de circunstancias a su favor. Si César y Cromwell hubiesen intercambiado sus países, el uno podría haber sido sargento y el otro excomisario.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, Favors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author”, p.3

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• Cuando veo que el siglo XIX ha coronado la idolatría del Arte con la deificación del Amor, de modo que se supone que todo poeta ha traspasado el sanctasanctórum cuando ha anunciado que el Amor es el Supremo, o el Suficiente, o el Todo, siento que el Arte estaba más seguro en manos del más fanático de los generales de división de Cromwell de lo que estará si alguna vez llega a las mías.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Love Is, Hands

  George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.34, Penguin UK

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