Howard of Warwick > Quotes

“Having the Church interested in your business was like a Viking asking after your wife and daughters. Someone was going to end up shafted.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Heretics of De'Ath

“His nose was needle-like, drawing attention like a screaming baby at a funeral. A baby with a massive nose.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Heretics of De'Ath

“eighty-seven”
― Howard of Warwick, Not Another Murder: The Price of Blame.

“Hermitage,’ Wat sounded impressed. ‘You’re getting irritated, just like normal people. Well done.”
― Howard of Warwick, A Murder for Mistress Cwen

“You can’t just decide not to worry. That’s not how it works.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Case of The Curious Corpse

“uninterrupted.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Tapestry of Death

“Hermitage couldn’t stop a wishful thought crossing his mind about living in a library for thirty years.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Hermes Parchment

“The brave are the ones who don’t want to go to battle, but go anyway, in the middle of their fear.”
― Howard of Warwick, The 1066 To Hastings

“He nurtured great bitterness, and his only spark of generosity was to nurture it so well that it could be shared with everyone around him.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Heretics of De'Ath

“As usual she found William carefully guarding the fire in the keep. He was even holding his palms towards it to prevent it leaping from the grate.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Garderobe of Death

“We're bloody Vikings,’ Erik insisted. 'We don't ask people things. What sort of saga would that make? Great Erik, Fregurd and Sigmund did travel across the sea to the ravaged land of England, where they stopped to ask directions?”
― Howard of Warwick, The Domesday Book, (No, Not That One)

“cloister floor. One of the others suggested that”
― Howard of Warwick, A Murder for Brother Hermitage

“any mermaid that ventured into the filth of the Thames was most likely to be floating on the surface not doing anything much anymore.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Bayeux Embroidery

“The old man’s head was propped, rather precariously, on top of the body of an even older man. It was tiny, thin and stooped and had little more substance than the branches of the willow.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Magna Carta

“he sometimes wondered why leadership and stupidity seemed to be such frequent companions. And why people leaped to follow those who were plainly wrong. People who instructed them to do the impossible and then berated them for doing exactly what they’d been told, when they knew it was never going to work in the first place.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Case of The Clerical Cadaver

“If the man ever found a generous thought in his head he would have it taken out and executed”
― Howard of Warwick, Hermitage, Wat and Some Murder or Other

“She kills animals for no reason at all. She’s probably like them creatures what kill their mates after they've done it.’ 'Spaniards?’ 'That's them.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Garderobe of Death

“Five hundred years after the Romans left the place to fall into wrack and ruin, if the phoenix wasn’t actually rising from the ashes, at least it was twitching and coughing a bit.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Heretics of De'Ath

“He worried about most things most of the time, but every now and again something special would come along that demanded a little bit more effort.”
― Howard of Warwick, The Heretics of De'Ath