Against religion Quote by Samuel Johnson

“This Boulatruelle was a man in bad odour with the people of the neighbourhood; he was too respectful, too humble, prompt to doff his…

— Victor Hugo

“He is, we are told, a warrior from a bygone era, an old-fashioned knight for whom the virtues of chivalry and respect for the…

— Steven Pressfield

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put…

— John Keats

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only…

— Oscar Wilde

“But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I…

— Tanya Huff

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for…

— Charles Dickens

“Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling,…

— Ian Livingstone

“He would stay with his brothers out of loyalty, fight alongside his clansmen out of pride, but if he died, it would be for…

— Marsha Canham

“his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never…

— Thomas Bulfinch

“He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen…

— Hilary Mantel