The Archer's Tale
Bernard Cornwell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Robin Hood’s Lament”?’ Every archer knew that tune.”
“Harlequin, probably derived from the old French Hellequin: a troop of the devil’s horsemen.”
“Guinefort had been a dog and, so far as Thomas’s father knew, the only animal ever to be canonized. The beast had saved a baby from a wolf, then been martyred by his owner, who thought the dog had eaten the baby when in truth he had hidden it beneath the cot.”
“Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.”
“were in the camp, given a day’s rest after leading the last failed assault. Will Skeat hated failure.”
“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.”
“They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!”
“The hellequin,” she said icily, “are the dead who have no souls. The dead who were so wicked in life that the devil loves them too much to punish them in hell and so he gives them his horses and releases them on the living.”
“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.”
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