Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya’qūb of Aleppo never doubted it, either.
John, watching in dismay, saw his great chance slipping through his fingers, and he swung around to demand of his father, Papa, does this mean Richard has bested you and Aquitaine is lost? Eleanor win...
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, h...
I inhale hope with every breath I take.
Henry did not lack for physical courage; his was a moral cowardice.
Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow
Edward Plantagenet is no man to hold cheaply. Far better to take him at his own inflated estimation!
All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household’s petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask...
Back all he’d been
When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
What followed was for him a very entertaining spectacle, with one of Edward's brothers seemingly intent upon the most subtle of seductions and the other barely able to force malmsey past the gorge ris...
What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cut h...
There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.
The scene in the great hall was a raucous one, a cheerful mélange of knights, minstrels, servants, disreputable-looking women, and dogs, who were dicing, performing bawdy songs, responding to cries fo...
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,
She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.
Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord’...
Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone?
May I offer you some advice?I'd rather you offered me a fast horse and a head start, Richard said with a tight smile. But I'll take the advice, too.
I think the day might come, Bess, when all men will know of Dickon is what they were told by Tudor historians like Rous.Jesú, no! Bess sounded both appalled and emphatic. You mustn't think that. Whate...