"Hold fast to Normandy, for I have conquered England with it."

"I am not so proud that I scorn the counsel of fools."

"No man in England should have land or lordship unless he had a charter from me."

"I have persecuted the natives of England beyond all reason. Whether gentle or simple, I have cruelly oppressed them; many I unjustly disinherited; innumerable multitudes perished through me by famine …"

"I attacked the English of the Northern Shires like a lion. I ordered their houses and corn, with all their belongings, to be burnt without exception and large herds of cattle and beasts of burden to b…"