Charles V Quotes

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!