37 quotes found
“Crowns are hourly tumbling.”
“Even in peace there is war.”
“Power is a beautiful thing.”
“We are just peasants with money.”
“I love you for unfathomable reasons”
“It is far too late for bloodless hands.”
“The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.”
“Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didnt exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazarias enemies in their graves.”
“Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.”
“Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.”
“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”
“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to ask him his name. With a piercing glare and a haughty flick of h...”
“Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.”
“I consider my wife and children in all things; yet, I must consider Amara also.”
“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.”
“Thirty years of marriage to Erasto had taught her much, namely that men were reckless by nature, full of bluster, most incompetent, the rest fortunate to have a wife to keep them from allowing thei...”
“The dressmakers have just arrived from Shylon; they are coming here to display their goods.Really, thats lovely.I was wondering if I could have some money, please. Whats the point in having your ow...”
“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.”
“What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?”
“They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.”
“There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.”
“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their involvement in public life and politic...”
