Epigraph Quote by Patricia Bracewell

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

— Colin Quinn

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

— William Shakespeare

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually…

— Karen Maitland

“English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.”

— Peter Prasad

“I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets.…

— Philip K. Dick

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.”

— Ken Kesey

“The price for blood is blood”

— R.A. Evans

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we…

— J. Reuben Clark

“I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone.”

— B.C. Johnson

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after…

— Joseph Conrad

“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity…

— Paul Valéry