Earsling Quotes

#1. There are times," Leofric grumbled, "when you are an earsling." An earsling was something that had dropped out of a creature's backside and was one of Leofric's favourite insults. We were friends.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. You're a bastard," I said.
"Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say.
"You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling."
"I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity.
"So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#4. Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

John Gay

#5. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#6. I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.

Frank Underwood

#7. Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?

Alexandre Dumas