A fool and his money are easily parted.
You can’t take a city without shedding blood.
Words are like breath, she said, you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.
What did you want to achieve? Liberty, of course! The answer was swift, but followed immediately by a deprecating smile. Except I’ve learned there’s no such thing. There isn’t? You can’t have freedom...
Welsh kingdoms in some safety, and that thought was encouraging. Christians do like pilgrims, those pious folk who gaze at pig bones that pretend to be dead saints and then give money, lots of money,...
We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat.
Você nunca, nunca deve contar seus crimes aos outros, a não ser que sejam tão grandes a ponto de não poderem ficar escondidos, e nesse caso descreva-os como política ou ação de Estado.
They make laws that no one wants, then make money disagreeing with each other what the damned law means, and the more they disagree the more money they make, but still they go on making laws, and they...
They had marched all the soldiers’ miles together, and now their ways parted. They would promise reunion, but such promises were so rarely kept.
The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.
The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.
The law says I own that land, and the law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch.
The fear came then. The shield wall is a terrible place. It is where a warrior makes his reputation, and reputation is dear to us. Reputation is honour, but to gain that honour a man must stand in the...
The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!
The Holy Grail, the most precious of all Christ’s bequests to man, lost these thousand years and more, and he could see it glowing in the sky like shining blood and about it, bright as the glittering...
Religion makes strange bedfellows.
Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.
Piglet, Bishop Wulfheard said in a scornful tone. I stared at him, then held up a hand to check Merewalh, who was about to leave the hall. Maybe we don’t need a piglet, I said slowly, as if an idea wa...
Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me, then...
Men and women used pliers to pull teeth from the dead and, for years after, false teeth were known as Waterloo Teeth. Some