A biography for Charles Vhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”