Charles II of England famous quotes

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
-- Charles II of England

#Useless #Unnecessary #Understood

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
-- Charles II of England

#Virtue

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
-- Charles II of England

#Action #Ministers #Very True

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
-- Charles II of England

#Gentleman #Dying #Pardon Me

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.
-- Charles II of England

#Brother

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.