112 Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman

If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who’ve yet to meet him.

De Mortimer was willing to wager his hopes for salvation that self-interest was the one drink no man refused, but he had never understood why most men must sweeten it so lavishly ere they could swallow it.

He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it.

What is forgiveness worth without trust?

But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.

The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.

Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.

For whatever reasons – which had never interested him in his youth but which he sometimes pondered as an adult – the Angevin House had always taken Cain and Abel as role models.