The Black Arrow Quotes

“[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!”
― Stevenson Robert Louis, The Black Arrow

“I had four blak arrows under my belt,
Four for the greefs that I have felt,
Four for the number of ill menne
That have oppressid me now and then.
One is gone; one is wele sped;
Old Apulyaird is dead.
One is for Maister Bennet Hatch,
That burned Grimstone, walls and thatch.
One for Sir Oliver Oates,
That cut Sir Harry Shelton’s throat.
Sir Daniel, ye shull have the fourt;
We shall think it fair sport.
Ye shull each have your own part,
A blak arrow in each blak heart.
Get ye to your knees for to pray;
Ye are ded theeves, by yea and nay!

JON AMEND-ALL
Of the Green Wood,
And his jolly fellaweship”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow (Illustrated): A Tale of Two Roses

“Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“Nay,' said Dick. 'And now that I have seen you for what ye are - the fairest maid and stateliest of England - think ye I would turn? - if the deep sea were there, I would straight through it; if the way were full of lions, I would scatter them like mice.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“If the barons live at war, ploughfolk must eat roots.” “Nay,”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“It is I, indeed; and if ever true knight gave proof I am that man,’ replied the leader of the second troop; ‘for who would not rather face giants, sorcerers, or pagans, than this pinching cold?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“... and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

“Le rivolte non partono mai dal basso, Bennet: su questo concordano tutti gli storici di valore. Le rivolte nascono sempre in alto. Cerca bene e scoprirai che, dietro le azioni dei poveracci buttati allo sbaraglio, c’è sempre qualche signore che ne trae profitto.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow