Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father, ’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son, ’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost! Bernard Cornwell
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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Nicholas Klein
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
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Criss Jami
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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Confucius
We give up on life so easily. It's time we stopped and started fighting for it!
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Bernard Cornwell
But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.
You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while...
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
Some had hurled spears first. Those spears thumped into our shields, making them unwieldy, but it hardly mattered. The leading Danes tripped on the hidden timbers and the men behind pushed the falling men forward. I kicked one in the face, feeling my iron-reinforced boot...
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
