The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set Quotes

“I do not seek to belittle these cannon of the French. Yet the French have a greater weapon than their cannon in your fears of it. Unless you can cast them out, you are lost before a shot is fired or an arrow fitted to a string. And,” he thundered, “you deserve to be lost. For the world is not a place for timid men, nor is liberty a birthright of those who fear to fight and speak for it come what may. Nor was this dukedom founded by men who hung back from the assault. If we lose Grand Fenwick now, let us admit that we lost it through fear and not through gunshot and let us admit that we deserve to lose it, for it is no place to be held by cowards. And let us admit that we were not men enough to hand this land of ours on to our sons.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

“But touching the matter of the Count of Chaux de Fonds, let it be borne in mind that the blows given in a tournament should be delivered with Christian charity and a desire to serve God.” “Whoever puts a dent in a Frenchman’s skull serves God most handsomely,” said the Duke.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

“Mental effort of any kind made Sir Roger sad, for he believed himself so constituted that, called upon to use his mind, evil humors collected in his liver. On the other hand, physical exercise cleared his liver but prevented anything from settling in his mind to its detriment.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

“If a small green caterpillar drops from a tree on the sleeve of an Irishman he will two days later assure you that he was attacked by a dragon of four heads, one blue, one red, one black and one invisible, that the dragon was a furlong in length and that he escaped from it only after a battle in which he was left with but a pint of blood in his veins.” “They are an engaging race, without a doubt,” said Abbot Almin. “Yes,” said Sir Roger, “but as I say, they don’t know the real from the fanciful. That is why it is so important for us to rule their country. You can’t have a collection of poets, mystics and outright liars running an island next door to your own nation. Much too dangerous and disorderly.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

“The Abbot shrugged. “Perhaps because it would have been thought un-English of the English to use them first,” he said. “Or perhaps because they were new, for in England, as Your Grace knows, it is a mark of unholiness to try anything which is new. That is always left to others.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

“If you waste only one year out of your lifetime, and that to please your father, the wastage is very small,” said Tully.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set