Quotes About William The Conqueror

#1. Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

Steven Pinker

#2. Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

Jules Michelet

#3. In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day.

David Sax

#4. Being dead will be no different from being unborn
I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Richard Dawkins

#5. When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

James Buchan

#6. My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

Celia Imrie

#7. William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.

Salman Rushdie

#8. It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

David Attenborough

#9. Mitochondrial genes act like a female surname, which enables us to trace our ancestry down the female line in the way some families try to trace their descent down the male line from William the Conqueror, or Noah, or Mohammed.

Nick Lane

#10. William the Conqueror's campaigns against the rebels have usually been dealt with very briefly and resistance has been summarily dismissed as ineffective, largely because in the end, that resistance was overcome in a singularly brutal manner. Even

Peter Rex

#11. Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life ... but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

Roald Dahl

#12. At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#13. The human spirit cannot be seen; neither can it be denied.

Toni Sorenson

#14. Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

William Rowan Hamilton

#15. The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

#16. There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.

Jeff VanderMeer

#17. Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. Belgium is a country with a split personality.

Nicholas Royle

#19. Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.

Christian D. Larson

#20. This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

#21. How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

Margaret Heffernan

#22. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

William Benton Clulow

#23. In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

William Ralph Inge

#24. When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange

#25. At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

Orhan Pamuk

#26. Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

William Ellery Channing

#27. Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!'
'There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey!

Georgette Heyer

#28. I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

Ezra Klein

#29. Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

Margaret Floy Washburn

#30. Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

Sam Amidon

#31. Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

Gabriela Isler

#32. Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Roger Federer

#33. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

William Shakespeare

#34. You wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the

Scott Hahn

#35. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare

#36. The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

Shawn Ashmore