Gunpowder Plot Quotes

#1. In 1580, when William was sixteen, Campion passed through Warwickshire on his way to the more safely Catholic north. He stayed with a distant relative of Shakespeare's, Sir William Catesby, whose son Robert would later be a ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot.

Bill Bryson

#2. On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, What do you think of Predestination now?

Winston S. Churchill

#3. I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

Terri Windling

#4. WHOEVER TALKS ABOUT WHAT DOES NOT CONCERN HIM, OFTEN HEARS WHAT DOES NOT PLEASE HIM!

Anonymous

#5. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Alan Moore

#6. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

John Ruskin

#8. Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

Jon Foreman

#9. Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn.

Tabitha Suzuma

#10. Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Dean Koontz

#11. I must've been a telemarketer in a previous life and now I'm being punished for it.

Harper Bentley