Humour Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“There was nothing but mist to his left and behind him, but to his right, he made out two or three large, bulky shapes,…

— Diana Gabaldon

'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet,…

— Homer

“the soles off your shoes!' Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged…

— Jacob Grimm

“Gabriel,’ said Jerott firmly, ‘is now at Birgu, Malta, engaged in a life-and-death struggle for the Grand Mastership of the Order of St John.…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing…

— Lisa Kleypas

“...that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I lay on my side with my head on the pillows and looked out of the window; the blue of the sky was so…

— Hanne Ørstavik

“Balthar and the Devil's Stone”

— Walter SJ Tegelaar

“I don't know. I suppose I should have had a better idea of what I was letting myself in for. Still, the first murder…

— Donna Tartt

“There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were…

— C.S. Lewis

“The Apache wrenched his pony's head around and when Glanton spun to look at his men he found them frozen in deadlock with the…

— Cormac McCarthy