Charles V quotes
Born
24 February 1500, Ghent, Habsburg Netherlands.
Died
21 September 1558.
Occupation
Emperor.
Charles V was a Holy Roman Emperor.
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
– Charles V
I make war on the living, not the dead.
– Charles V
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
– Charles V
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
– Charles V
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
– Charles V
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord – he wants Milan, and so do I.
– Charles V
Those who believe in ghosts always see them.
– Charles V
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
– Charles V
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord – he wants Milan, and so do I.
– Charles V
I came, I saw, God conquered.
– Charles V
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
– Charles V
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
– Charles V