Harry Sidebottom > Quotes

“Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that not so for all of us?”
― Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun

“Nie rozumiesz. Każda religia, która nakazuje wyznawcom kochać odległego, zapewne wymyślonego boga bardziej od tych, których powinni kochać, rodziny, przyjaciół, a przede wszystkim dzieci, jest okrutna i nieludzka. Więc jak widzisz, nie sądzę, żebym należał do ludzi, których można nawrócić na wiarę w waszego ukrzyżowanego boga.”
― Harry Sidebottom, King of Kings

“I take it you do not agree with your countrymen’s religious practices.’

‘Oh no,’ said Hippothous. ‘I am not Cilician by birth. Mine has been a long and tragic path. I was born in Perinthus, the noble city close by Byzantium. My father was on the Boule. When I was young, I fell desperately in love. Hyperanthes was nearly my age. Stripped for wrestling in the gymnasium, he was like a god. And his eyes – no sidelong glances or fearsome looks, no trace of villainy or dissembling.’

As they ate, Hippothous told them a tale of love, lust, subterfuge, murder, flight, shipwreck, loss and exile – a tale worthy of a Greek romance.

‘Probably from a fucking Greek romance,’ muttered Calgacus.”
― Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun

“The ivory images of the gods that followed were applauded by their particular devotees: Neptune by sailors, Mars by soldiers, Apollo and Artemis by soothsayers and hunters, Minerva by craftsmen, Bacchus and Ceres by drunks and countryfolk in town for the day. Venus and Cupid were cheered by all - who could be so dull as to deny ever being touched by any aspect, physical or otherwise, of love?”
― Harry Sidebottom, King of Kings

“Sometimes your eyes see something so unexpected your understanding lags behind. Figures”
― Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun

“many ways, it was the latter quality that had put”
― Harry Sidebottom, The Last Hour: '24' set in Ancient Rome

“WAITING IS ALWAYS THE hardest part. Every fibre in your being screams just get this over. Your breathing is shallow, you fidget with barely suppressed anxiety, your mind finds it difficult to hold any thought except for better or worse just let this happen.”
― Harry Sidebottom, The Shadow King

“No straw-death, but the death of a hero.”
― Harry Sidebottom, The Amber Road

“hundreds of them – sitting, standing, a multitude of refugees, all silent and dejected. Selandros gestured”
― Harry Sidebottom, The Caspian Gates

“A mere like this might be bottomless mud, like the one at home they used to drown the buggers in.”
― Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun