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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1) QUOTES

Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1) QUOTES

1 " Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

2 " Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

3 " The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

4 " Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

5 " Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone? "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

6 " War is the least productive of men’s pastimes, and the most indulgent. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

7 " Poor Wales, so far from Heaven, so close to England! "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

8 " Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

9 " I’ve never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

10 " If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

11 " If that’s how you’d rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

12 " There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

13 " The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

14 " I would look dreadful in black. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

15 " Richard forced him from his sickbed, broke his power, his pride. But you, John, you broke his heart. I truly wonder which be the greater sin. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

16 " In a contest of wills between John and his mother, he did not think John would prevail, indeed he hoped he would not. But he did not care to be a witness to their confrontation; he suspected Eleanor's methods would be neither maternal nor merciful. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

17 " Otherwise, I’d like nothing better than…conversing with you. You’re such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all, "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

18 " Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

19 " Is it not a wondrous thing, to see your child born?”

He nodded. “Indeed. But I’ll tell you what is no less wondrous to me right now. That after a woman endures all this, why she is then willing to let any man ever again get within ten feet of her bed! "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)

20 " Shall I tell you how to mend a broken trust? Pluck the feathers from a goose, scatter them to the four winds. Then gather them all up, each and every one, and put them back on the goose. It is as easy as that. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)