Quotes About English Civil War

#1. I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

Jeremy Corbyn

#2. The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

Bernard Bailyn

#3. When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

Charles Bukowski

#4. I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.

Colleen Houck

#5. I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

Nat Wolff

#6. When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'

Mary Matalin

#7. I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Julia Lee Dean

#8. Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Ed Parker

#9. Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want

Alessandra Ambrosio

#10. With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).

W.C. Sellar

#11. You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Cesare Pavese

#12. A villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told.

Chris Colfer

#13. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.

Geoffrey Hill

#14. If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

Michael Shaara

#15. Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#16. There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Plato

#17. If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Spinelli

#19. England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.

Len Deighton

#20. That night taught me one of life's most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!

Nick Hornby