Uhtred Of Bebbanburg Quotes

#1. I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that his own death is just days away. Tell him that promise comes from Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. Choose your battles,' I snarled at Aethelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg

Bernard Cornwell

#5. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

Natalie Goldberg

#6. All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

Paul Engle

#7. O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#8. The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Sholom Aleichem

#9. I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...

Kate Elliott

#10. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.

N.L. Gervasio

#11. a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

Rachel Zucker

#12. It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

Dan Simmons

#13. The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ...

Kenneth Grahame

#14. Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

Nido R. Qubein

#15. Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Anthony Hope

#16. I was emotionally scarred we could not get it away

Corinne Bailey Rae

#17. I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Grizzly Adams did have a beard

Lee Trevino

#19. All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Shantideva