Home / Quotes / Quote by Oliver Cromwell

Quote by Oliver Cromwell

“Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.”

Quote by Oliver Cromwell

Author

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell was a British politician, military leader, and religious figure. Born on April 25, 1599, and died on September 3, 1658, he played a significant role in 17th-century British history. He was the leader of the English Civil War, the founder of the English Republic, and the end of King Charles I's reign. more

You May Also Like

“Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.”

Men Doe Suffering Speak Sound Talking Wise Mouths Rejoice

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.”

Doe Drunk Plenty Magnificent Alcoholism Alcoholics

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.”

Want Writing Kind Persons Book Age Five Thirty

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.”

Ifs Looks Enough Life Is Mystery Ordinary Ordinary Life

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.”

Matter Subjects No Matter What

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]”

Long Death Given Heaven Gates Gates Of Heaven

Author:Thomas Heywood

“Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.”

Said Age Three Share Ten Twenties Distinction Score Prime Prime Of Life

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.”

People Thinking Kind Two Sometimes Autobiography

Book:Pipers and a dancer

Source: Pipers and a dancer

“always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.”

Giving Dream Air Hills California Veils Dew Grapes Peaches Unreality Intervening

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man

“Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.”

Art Country House Sides Cities Tree Window California Suburbs Californians Country Houses

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man