Discipleship Quote by Robert Bolt

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking…

— Charles Dickens

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“For I am inclined to believe that my beloved Arthur of the future is sitting at this very moment among his learned freinds, in…

— T.H. White

“Young Surrey now lays down his knife and begins to complain. Noblemen, he laments, are not respected as they were in the days when…

— Hilary Mantel

“For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is…

— Sarah Vowell

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my…

— Francois Fenelon

“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.”

— Deepak Rana

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel

“Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!”

— Virginia Woolf

“you hear anyone talking about the liberties of England (by which he means the liberties of the obscurantists, the Mrs. Grundies, the Bishops, and…

— C.S. Lewis

“This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“If I were to receive a pair of the blessed prophetic sandals to place on my head, then I shall consider myself no less…

— Anonymous