Charles V

“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 the further away.”

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

“I came, I saw, God conquered.”

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

“Iron hand in a velvet glove.”

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