Top 100 Cromwell's Quotes
#1. We thought you would not die - we were sure you would not go; And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell's cruel blow - Sheep without a shepherd when the snow shuts out the sky - Oh, why did you leave us, Eoghan? Why did you die?
Bill O'Reilly
#2. 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
#3. Cromwell's statement, "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going,
Robert M. Pirsig
#4. When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it
oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.
Hilary Mantel
#5. 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
#6. There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.
James Cromwell
#7. I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
#8. Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.
James Cromwell
#11. I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'
James Cromwell
#12. The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.
James Cromwell
#13. There is a world beyond this black world. There is a world of the possible. A world where Anne can be queen is a world where Cromwell can be Cromwell. He sees it; then he doesn't. The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
Hilary Mantel
#14. That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.
Stephen Richards
#15. comely Savannah Frost approaching my front door. She
Anna Cromwell
#16. Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.
James Cromwell
#17. I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.
Hilary Mantel
#18. He would rather know what's outside, see the summer in its sad blowing wreckage, than cower behind the blind and wonder what the damage is. - Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
#19. No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
#20. William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United
John Taliaferro
#21. WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
Oliver Cromwell
#22. I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.
James Cromwell
#23. I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
James Cromwell
#24. I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
#25. Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.
pg.480
Hilary Mantel
#26. It's a matter of public safety for us all. Innocent people are going to prison, leaving the real perpetrators on the street, often to continue their acts of violence.
Robert K. Cromwell
#27. Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
Oliver Cromwell
#28. A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"
Cromwell of Wriothesley
Hilary Mantel
#29. For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
Oliver Cromwell
#30. The king's council, and obliged him, Thomas Cromwell, by
Hilary Mantel
#31. Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
James Cromwell
#32. English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
Ben Miles
#33. Does a man speak foolishly?
suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?
stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?
rejoice in the truth.
Oliver Cromwell
#34. 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 in street and stamped on.
Pg.406
Hilary Mantel
#35. You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires ... ' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.
James Cromwell
#36. I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6'. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
James Cromwell
#37. I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.
James Cromwell
#38. I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
James Cromwell
#39. Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
James Cromwell
#40. If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
Oliver Cromwell
#41. Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
#42. Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
James Cromwell
#43. Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne's rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner.
Hilary Mantel
#44. The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.
Simon Schama
#45. All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
James Cromwell
#46. THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.
Oliver Cromwell
#47. Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
Oliver Cromwell
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.
John F. Kennedy
#51. At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one ... the surgeon and the stud.
Stephen Richards
#52. So now get up.'
Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.
Hilary Mantel
#53. What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
James Cromwell
#54. The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable ... We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.
James Cromwell
#55. I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.
James Cromwell
#56. 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 and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever.
Steven Morrissey
#57. After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser
#58. I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
Oliver Cromwell
#59. Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.
James Cromwell
#60. I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.
James Cromwell
#62. 'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.
James Cromwell
#63. The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.
James Cromwell
#66. You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Oliver Cromwell
#67. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
Oliver Cromwell
#68. 'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'
James Cromwell
#69. Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
Oliver Cromwell
#70. Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell.
Alison Stuart
#71. Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
James Cromwell
#72. There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.
James Cromwell
#73. If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
James Cromwell
#74. Those who fail the king do not die in their beds.
V.E. Lynne
#76. Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell
#77. I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
James Cromwell
#78. The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
James Cromwell
#80. I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
James Cromwell
#81. I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.
James Cromwell
#83. Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.
Stephen Richards
#84. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
#86. No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.
Hilary Mantel
#87. RICH I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence.
CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been very important to you.
Robert Bolt
#89. But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.
James Cromwell
#90. Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
Oliver Cromwell
#91. I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment ... that those were ethical omnivores.
James Cromwell
#92. My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.
James Cromwell
#93. Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a ... person? It isn't as if you could afford to be.
Hilary Mantel
#94. You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never.
One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
pg. 495
Hilary Mantel
#95. It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.
James Cromwell
#96. Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of serpents. But do not be a viper in my bosom. You know my decision. Execute it.'
pg. 585
Hilary Mantel
#97. He, Cromwell, watches. They are not the same couple from day to day: sometimes doting, sometimes chilly and distanced. The billing and cooing, on the whole, is the more painful to watch.
516
Hilary Mantel
#98. Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore resolved upon a deed of "frightfulness" deeply embarrassing to his nineteenth-century admirers and apologists. Having
Winston S. Churchill
#99. That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
Oliver Cromwell
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