Quotes About Charles V

#1. If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#2. The bags full of Turkish noses sent by the Uskoks from Senj to Charles V in 1532 may have been one of those gifts more fun to send than to receive,

Simon Winder

#3. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE

James W. Loewen

#4. That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

Francis Bacon

#5. The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Walter Scott

#6. A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

#7. Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Charles V. Chapin

#8. I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Charles V

#9. To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Charles V

#10. ... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#11. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#13. Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Charles V

#14. Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#17. 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Charles Dickens

#18. My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

Charles V

#19. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

#20. To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.

Emperor Charles V

#21. Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five

Charles Dickens

#22. Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

#23. How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

#24. IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

Charles Dickens

#25. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the

Charles Dickens

#26. I make war on the living, not the dead.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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

Charles Dickens

#28. In Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door

Charles Dickens

#29. There is hardly anything as beautiful as
a woman in a long dress
not even the sunrise
not even the geese flying south
in the long V formation
in the bright freshness
of early morning.

Charles Bukowski

#30. Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#32. As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Charles V. Chapin