Quotes About Philip II

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic experience is lacking. This was as true of the inquisitors of the medieval church, of the cruel and mystical Philip II of Spain, as it is of any modern mass murderer.

the Spanish ambassador in England, Guzman de Silva, reported to Philip II

Philip II had entertained Maitland's overtures in the first place solely to counter a possible marriage to Charles IX