Books Quote by Mark Mulle

“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the…

— James Luceno

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…

— Emily Dickinson

“... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield Suspended in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Ozymandias" I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If all the old stories are to be believed, and some people, let us remember, do believe them, then our king is one part…

— Hilary Mantel

“Cosca smiled up at the dragon, hands on hips. ‘It certainly is a remarkable curiosity. A magnificent relic. But against what is already boiling…

— Joe Abercrombie

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return…

— Madeline Miller

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never…

— Richard Adams

“Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still." "These relics have a history then?" "So…

— Arthur Conan Doyle