Angus Watson > Quotes

“every group needs its twat, and if you’re in a group of people and there isn’t a twat, then it’s you. He”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“...a scare is always more effective than advice.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“Dug looked for a flicker of humanity in her eyes. Nope, not a spark. “Do you know,” he said, “I’ve always thought that people are about as happy as they decide to be.” “What?” “Nothing.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“The warships could have rowed to Britain and back ten times by now, but they were held back by the turgid progress of the overladen sailing boats. They looked to Ragnall like a fleet of obese men floating on their backs and holding up handkerchiefs, hoping to be blown to lunch.”
― Angus Watson, Reign of Iron

“evil king tells his people that his evil deeds are for their own good. And they’ll lie to themselves that he’s right because that’s the easiest thing to do. But soon the evil king will run out of enemies, and the people who helped him will become his victims. Then they’ll regret it, but it’s too late!” Ragnall”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“And remember, let a man drink moderately, speak sensibly or stay silent. No one will admonish you for going to bead early.”
― angus watson, You Die When You Die

“Being small didn’t turn men into pricks, but Danu knew which men were going to be pricks so she made them short as a punishment.”
― Angus Watson, Clash of Iron

“The Warriors were Modaball, a man even fatter than Vastivias, with long red hair in pigtails, bare-chested above bizarrely high-waisted blue and white striped trousers, and Bran, a short man with a wily eye and a big blond moustache.”
― Angus Watson, Clash of Iron

“Maggot stood back from the wall. “But remember this. When someone tells you that helping them is in your best possible interests, do you really reckon it is?”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“Why was there a battle yesterday?” “Because adults, as you’ll come to understand when you are one, are fools.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“Why was there a battle yesterday?” “Because adults, as you’ll come to understand when you are one, are fools.” “Oh,”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“I know you are not paying me any heed, Ragnall. I can warn you over and over, but it will make no difference because you are a young man with beauty, strength and the firm belief that you know better than anyone who has ever trod Britain’s green fields before you. In reality you have the judgement of a sex-starved billy goat with a head injury. When you are old and wise, you will see what a fool you are now, and you will see life’s cruellest joke.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron

“I thought you knew everything, Drustan?” The old man smiled. “The wisest man or woman is but a child poking a stick into a rock pool next to a boundless ocean below an unending range of mountains. Which is why, Ragnall, it would do well for those druids who think they can explain everything to take their heads out of their own arses.”
― Angus Watson, Age of Iron