1356 Quotes

“Thomas nodded towards Keane. 'He doesn't want to be a priest and you don't want to be a monk. Now you're both Hellequin.'
Brother Michael looked disbelieving. 'I am?' He asked excitedly.
'You are,' Thomas said.
'So all we need now is a pair of ripe young girls who don't want to be nuns,' Keane said cheerfully.”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“We have forgotten that courage is a choice and that permission to move forward with boldness is never given by fearful masses”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“They’re the sort of dozy bastards who don’t think beyond their next pot of ale, but Thomas does, Thomas is a two-pot thinker, he is.”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“The Reign of Edward III by W. Mark Ormrod; and Edward III by the same”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“He doesn’t want to face Englishmen,’ the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“But you can get arrows from the”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“even be here,’ Douglas snarled. The Scottish knights had been summoned by”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“For what?” the Lord of Douglas demanded. “For”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356

“The English chevauchée was a tactic to destroy a country’s power, to starve the lords of taxes, to burn their”
― Bernard Cornwell, 1356