James I of England

"The House of Commons is a body without a head. The Members give their opinions in a disorderly manner. At their meetings nothing is heard but cries, shouts, and confusion. I am surprised that my ances…"

"Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke."

"James Stuart, the only son of Elizabeth's old nemesis, Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, long had a bad press among English historians. This was, in part, because he possessed an unconventional pe…"

"The new king's manner also contrasted sharply with that of his Tudor predecessors, sometimes to his disadvantage. Once again, some of his personal traits were far more damaging then than they would be…"

"On the morning of 15 May 1607 a hundred and forty-three men disembarked from having been crowded aboard Captain Christopher Newport's three ships during the past four months of their tedious sea passa…"

"Unfortunately for his image, both then and later, the new king did not look, sound or act, to contemporary eyes and ears, very much like a surrogate for the Supreme Being. It is not James' fault that …"

"I made the carles lords, but who made the carlines ladies?"

"I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subject…"