The Silver Chalice Quotes

“Do you agree that we should order them back into the house and then scatter these watchers an send them home? If they refuse to obey there will be trouble. We will have to slit throats. I confess to you, Eleazer , that I do not like slitting throats at a wedding.”
― Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice

“When is this old moneybags doing to give up and die as any decent man would do? I am tired of standing at his door.”
― Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice

“feeble and so I lay this command on you, that you finish your task as soon as possible.”
― Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice

“Adam had regained his normal mood. He grinned and waved to Luke airily as he turned to enter the house. “I will see you then in Jerusalem, my venerable friend,” he said. “The city will be busy and it will be filled with peace, and wherever we go the dome of the Temple will be in our eyes. The only lamentations we hear will come from the Wailing Wall.”
― Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice

“Basil, looking up at the stars, had forgotten everything but the wondrous story to which he had listened. He was thinking how the stars had guided the Three Wise Men to the manger at Bethlehem.”
― Thomas B. Costain, The Silver Chalice