Charles V

"In my realm the sun never sets"

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

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

“We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customer ...

“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball”

“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes ...

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

“Iron hand in a velvet glove.”

“I came, I saw, God conquered.”

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