Lionheart Quotes

“Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“Consulting a priest about carnal matters is like asking a blind man to describe a sunset.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby’s first breath, a mother’s fading heartbeat.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“Humphrey was accustomed to having to offer such reassurances, for his was a world in which intellectual curiosity was not viewed as virtue, not when both Christians and Muslims were convinced that theirs was the only true faith.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“I've always found it interesting that their holy men preach that Muslims who fight in that jihad will be granted admissions to Paradise, just as the Holy Father promises that those who take the cross will be absolved of their sins.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“He would never be able to emulate Richard’s last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart

“Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya’qūb of Aleppo never doubted it, either.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Lionheart