“To conclude, if God gives you success, use it humbly and far from revenge. If He restores you upon hard conditions, whatever you promise, keep. --- Charles I's final letter to his son, Charles, Prince of Wales, 1649” GodSuccessFatherly AdviceCharles ICharles Ii Book:The Chocolate Maker's Wife Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].” HelpingSupportImpossibleWillingReturnKingsEnglandPrisonFinancialJewTrialsArrangementsAdequateAdviseAssassinsAdmissionFinancial SupportCharles I Author:Oliver Cromwell
“Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsLittlesAgeLiteratureAttitudeImpactUniversitySixtyRoyalCharles I Author:Anthony Holden
“Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.” SpiritCoursesReligiousCareersRolesCasesMilitaryIdentityBandArmyMovedTrainSurfaceScalesLocalsPostsRebellionTroopsSimilarityMonarchsMilitiaForgedCharismaticEthosCromwellAmerican IdentityCharles I Author:Garry Wills
“I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate likeability to him, as soon as you meet him he's very, very charismatic. Charles, on the page, was someone who's very domineering and quite a negative character, and Pierce just by being Pierce can change the whole dynamic of it, which made for a much for interesting relationship. He's a really nice guy.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeWholeCharacterGuyInterestingNicePagesNegativeInnateReally NicePierceNice GuyCharismaticCharles I Author:Robert Pattinson
“Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.” WantLoveWritingMindAgeFoundLostWhiteBearsHabitMembersPaperPicksMy FamilyDoctorsBoxesInnocenceMourningGoing AwayItalianCollectingRipeVeniceBad HabitsWant HimLuggageGood MindRaspberriesCharles I Author:Evelyn Waugh
“You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!” TurnsSickEnvyDragonsBlastShaggingCharles I Author:Jeaniene Frost
“"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."” I CanNextCan DoFictionFireBuiltFasterIndianNext DayAnnaCharles I Author:Patricia Briggs
“When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'” YearsMindWould BeAbleSchoolTeacherHeardOne DayMy FriendsThirdsConvincedGradesRaysGeorgiaThird GradeCharles I Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.” HumansPlayDesireHateFieldsKingsActivityI HateTyrannyTyrantsHuman ActivityCharles I Author:Charles Edison
“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.” HistoryNeededEnglandIronyThronesSuccessorsBritish HistoryCromwellCharles I Author:Simon Schama
“For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.” MadeFateRevolutionKingsSubtleAmerican RevolutionCharles I Author:Thomas Paine
“I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.” MenStarsCatBrownRaysFrankImitationBassCharlieJimmyJerryHendrixImitatorColtraneStravinskyBacking UpCharles I Author:Jaco Pastorius
“I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.” ThinkingAreasWindowRoundsManagersDressersCharles I Author:Charles Dance