Lionheart Quotes

“However, I hold it admirable that this wife — your lady, sir — can find love and marriage consonant.” I thought that sadness coloured her voice, and suddenly a series of pictures flashed on my mind’s eye:”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns…” There was laughter again then, and applause, and a cry, “Well sung!”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“as among equals, and in purity and kindness — cannot exist between spouses.” At this there was a small”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“Fair knight, the code of love says that marriage is no obstacle to lovers.” Her brow wrinkled. “Does that satisfy you?”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“it please Your Majesty,” said the young knight, in firm tones, “the question I put to the court is: Can love truly survive marriage?” The ladies”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked.”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“Richard had not been minded to levy any tax at all upon the common people. “Why should they pay of the little they have, when there is immeasurable wealth in the hands of a few nobles?”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I

“Papa says folk will always hate what they do not understand; it is from ignorance.”
― Martha Rofheart, Lionheart: A Novel of Richard I