Sam Eure > Sam's Quotes

“And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my design! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born, I was countermining them. And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin, my bountiful wine-press for a while, and shall be later on my companion and my helper. You shall be avenged in turn, for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done. You have aided in thwarting me. Now you shall come to my call. When my brain says "Come!" to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. And to that end this!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Their clothes were drab and they had to work hard all day. But they kept fit that way, and slept well.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The Canterbury Tales

“He may be the stoutest man hereabouts,' said Gisbourne scornfully, 'but hereabouts is not the wide world...”
― John Burrows, The Adventures of Robin Hood

“How could they know that a miller's not just as greedy as a hole in the ground, but as slippery as a handful of butter as well?”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, Canterbury Tales

“It was as if a lifetime's wisdom and peacefulness had found its way into her head while she was still young.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean

“The friar organized a hunt. But the Alchemist was long gone -- lost among the townspeople like one bad penny melting into a puddle of lead.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The Canterbury Tales

“out vile jelly! where is thy lustre now”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Is he talking Latin?' said the Yeoman.
'No,' said Hubert, 'but I'll be damned if it's the English my mother taught me.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The Canterbury Tales

“As far as the eye could see, black rocks broke through the waves and tore the surf to shreds of white.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, The Canterbury Tales

“Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“In my stars I
am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness; some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em a”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I will in the interim undertake one of
Hercules' labours...”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Patrick Henry argued that according to British law, no British citizen could be forced to pay a tax unless his representative... in Parliament agreed. But since there were no Americans in Parliament, the colonies didn't have representation. Any tax passed by Parliament was illegal...”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World: Early Modern Times from Elizabeth I to the Forty-Niners Activity Book 3: History for the Classical Child

“I started at a sound so strange, long-drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand and I stood gazing...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“it is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn't speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Who would think that fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!
Yet so it is.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“In a world, it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them! "Why”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“As time went on, Tecumseh saw that other tribes were willing to sign treaties with the whites, "selling" land in exchange for gifts. Again, Tecumseh grew angry. "We do not own the land!" he told his followers. "Land is like air and water. No one owns it. We all use it in common!”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World: Early Modern Times from Elizabeth I to the Forty-Niners Activity Book 3: History for the Classical Child

“Europe, thou great theater of arts, sciences, commerce, war, am I at last permitted to visit thy territories?”
― John Adams