Quotes from Charles V

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

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

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

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