Henry Gilbert > Quotes

“Once upon a time the great mass of English people were unfree. They could not live where they chose, nor work for whom they pleased. Society in those feudal days was mainly divided into lords and peasants. The lords held the land from the king, and the peasants or villeins were looked upon as part of the soil, and had to cultivate it to support themselves and their masters.”
― Henry Gilbert, Robin Hood

“I will have no pardon from any proud prelate for any ill I do to the evil brood of priests. Come soon, come late, I knew that ere long I should do some deed against the doers of evil who sit in strong castles or loll in soft abbeys and oppress and wrong poor or weaker folk. It is done at last, and I am content”
― Henry Gilbert, Robin Hood

“beat down the door, and then amid the shrieks and prayers of the affrighted nuns”
― Henry Gilbert, Robin Hood