Charles Ii England Quotes & Sayings

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. — Charles II Of England

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying. — Charles II Of England

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels. — Charles II Of England

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. — Simon Schama

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one. — Christopher Hitchens

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. — Charles II Of England