So we all die?'No, no, no! We fight them!''How do you fight a dragon?''With prayer, boy, with prayer.''So we do all die
So long as we remember names, so long those people live.
So long as there is war there will be warlords. Leaders. What makes a man follow a leader? Success. A warrior wants victory, he wants silver, he wants land, and he looks to his lords for all those thi...
Ravn had given me much advice and all of it was good, but now, in the night wind, I remembered just one thing he had said to me on the night we first met, something I had never forgotten.Never, he had...
Putting a cat into a stable doesn’t make it a horse
Poor as an honest lawyer.
Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.
One thing I learned about the Danes was that they knew how to spy. The monks who write the chronicles tell us that they came from nowhere, their dragon-prowed ships suddenly appearing from a blue vaca...
O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.
Merlino mi fissò. - Credi che tu, Derfel, o Artù possiate essere tanto forti da resistere a Nimue? Lei è una donna. Le donne ottengono sempre ciò che vogliono, e se per ottenerlo devono rovinare il mo...
Many men do not beat their wives, even though the law allows it and the church encourages it, but a man gains no reputation by beating a weaker person. Æthelred had beaten Æthelflaed, but he was a wea...
Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.
Just what do you plan to do, Sharpe? the Lieutenant asked.Don’t know, sir. Won’t know till we get there.You’re going to the mine?Aye, sir.There’ll be guards.Like as not.And only two of us.I can count,...
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.’ Napoleon
In other words, she said tartly, women are supposed to do all that a man can’t do. And right now it seems men can’t fight, so I’d better do that too.
In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches.
I should never have confessed my rank, I thought. Better to be a living slave than a dead ealdorman.
I once asked a bishop whether there were any women in heaven. ‘Of course there are, my lord,’ he answered, happy that I was taking an interest in doctrine, ‘many of the most blessed saints are women.’...
How can a god disapprove of a good hump?
He needed to know it, see it, smell it, and survive it. I was training the boy not just to be a warrior, but to be a king.