Charles V Quotes

"Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away."
- Charles V
(Related: Nature, Fortune, Woman)

"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball."
- Charles V
(Related: Name)

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
- Charles V
(Related: God, Men, Women)

"I came, I saw, God conquered."
- Charles V
(Related: God)

"Iron hand in a velvet glove."
- Charles V

"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
- Charles V
(Related: Conscience, Heaven)