Quotes About Charles Ii

#1. 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

#2. I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stuart, who was always loving and kind to the opposite sex. The members of his court were fascinating, and Barbara Castlemaine was one of the greatest courtesans in history.

Virginia Henley

#3. I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

Martin Freeman

#4. King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

Antonia Fraser

#5. Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#6. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and

J.M. Barrie

#7. When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

Arthur Bryant

#8. Drain your drink, come on. You don't leave a full glass in a pub. Charles II outlawed it.

Harriet Evans

#9. Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

John Aubrey

#10. 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

#11. Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

S.M. Stirling

#12. He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. Never in the way, and never out of the way.

Charles II

#14. Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV.

Charles Dickens

#15. You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Charles II Of England

#16. My greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

Charles Bukowski

#17. I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Charles II

#18. Loadstone Rock Book the Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow

Charles Dickens

#19. Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal

Charles Dickens

#20. This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

Charles II Of England

#21. Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.

Charles Bronfman

#22. Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II

Charles M. Blow

#23. You had better have one King than five hundred.

Charles II

#24. The First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop

Charles Dickens

#25. First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The

Charles Dickens

#26. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight

Charles Dickens

#27. If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

Charles II Of England

#28. Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

Charles II Of England

#29. Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.

Charles Dickens

#30. I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.

Charles Roven

#31. To Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation

Charles Dickens

#32. I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

Charles Schwab

#33. Contents Book the First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows

Charles Dickens

#34. I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm

Charles Dickens

#35. I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.

Charles Lindbergh

#36. Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph

Charles Dickens

#37. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

#38. Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People

Charles Dickens