The Dark Ages - Book I of III Quotes

“he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.”
― Charles Oman, The Dark Ages - Book I of III

“The Vandal King's special foibles were the conclusion of treaties and armistices which he did not intend to keep, and a large piratical disregard for the need of any pretext or justification for his raids,”
― Charles Oman, The Dark Ages - Book I of III

“when brought into contact with the empire, picked up all the vices of its decaying civilisation without losing those of his original barbarism. It is not without some reason that the doings of Gaiseric have left their mark on the history of language in the shape of the modern word ' Vandalism.”
― Charles Oman, The Dark Ages - Book I of III

“His mental powers alone made him formidable, for he was not only a general of note, but a wily politician, faithless not with the light and heady fickleness of a savage, but with the deliberate and malicious treachery of a professional intriguer.”
― Charles Oman, The Dark Ages - Book I of III