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The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1) QUOTES

The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1) QUOTES

1 " Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

2 " Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation! "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

3 " It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fasinated them as might a game. Hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear the wings from flies, they might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men. Too young to fear or even imagine death, they would not hesitate to distribute it around them. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

4 " I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

5 " The hand of God strikes swiftly, particularly when assisted by the hand of man. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

6 " Chaque homme, parce qu'il croit un peu que le monde est né en même temps que lui, souffre, au moment de quitter la vie, de laisser l'univers inachevé. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

7 " A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

8 " From being the permanent militia of the Christian world, they had become the permanent bankers of Church and King. To have many debtors is to have many enemies. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

9 " vous lui ressemblez, "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

10 " For there are women who, when they look at you, seem to surrender to you in the first instant; but that is merely their natural expression; they look at a piece of furniture, at a tree, in exactly the same way and, in the end, give nothing at all. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

11 " Beside London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio at Florence seemed but a mere trifle in Guccio’s memory, and the Arno a brook compared with the Thames. He said so to his companion. ‘All the same we teach them everything,’ the latter replied. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

12 " Funny weather today,’ said the ferryman, bending slowly to his oars. ‘In the morning you wake up to such a mist that you can’t see two fathoms distance. And then about ten o’clock out comes the sun. One says to oneself “Here’s spring on the way”. And no sooner said than hailstorms set in for the afternoon. And now the wind’s getting up, and there’s going to be quite a blow, that’s certain. Funny weather. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

13 " I’m doing the best I can. Getting old, that’s what it is. I’ll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I’m no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,’ said the ferryman. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)

14 " El corazón le pesaba dentro del pecho y ni siquiera notaba cómo la cera goteaba en su mano. "

― Maurice Druon , The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)