Quotes from The Archer's Tale

“You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.” This was all said cheerfully. “How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Pelos ossos de Deus, Tom, o diabo fez um serviço ruim quando trepou com sua mãe.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Robin Hood’s Lament”?’ Every archer knew that tune.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Harlequin, probably derived from the old French Hellequin: a troop of the devil’s horsemen.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Nondum amabam, et amare amabam.
(No amé, pero anhelaba amar)”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“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, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Where’s your bowstrings?’ Thomas asked, for the priest had neither helmet nor cap.
‘I looped them round my…well, never mind. It has to be good for something other than pissing, eh? And it’s dry down there.’ Father Hobbe seemed indecently cheerful.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Remember the old saying, my lady,” he said slyly. “Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

“Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Archer's Tale

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