Griff Hosker > Quotes

“We are given a short time on this earth. If you are to make a difference you take life seriously.”
― Griff Hosker, Hrolf the Viking

“Winter is coming. ”
― Griff Hosker, Henry II

“Eleanor had her legs open”
― Griff Hosker, King in Waiting

“As I took my watch I realised that I”
― Griff Hosker, Sword for Hire

“Ha”
― Griff Hosker, Chasseur à Cheval

“spoke to him as I saddled him. It was the way a father spoke to a baby. It was not the words which mattered but the tone of voice. I had just finished and was leading Rolf out when Gilles and Richard”
― Griff Hosker, Enemy at the Gate

“unclenched”
― Griff Hosker, 1914

“squire remained on their mounts. Sir Guy's cousins brought their weary horses next to mine. ”
― Griff Hosker, Northern Knight

“You cannot be soft on folk like this. They live their life by excuses.”
― Griff Hosker, The Great Cause

“Aunt Ruth, who now lived with us, had seemed to become younger as the years went on. She had lived alone for so many years and I was her only family. Our letters, when I was in exile, had brought us close but it was since I had become lord of Stockton that she had become rejuvenated. Perhaps that was my children. I had four. Alfred, Rebekah, Isabelle and another son William who was now almost a year old. To my aunt this was a joy. Her husband, Sir Ralph, had been killed a few years after she had married. She had lost one child and never had another. My family became the family she never had and she spent as much time as my wife would allow with them. She came to me one evening after the children had been put to bed and my wife was telling the girls a story. “You know Thomas that I count myself the luckiest woman alive. I lost the only man I thought I could”
― Griff Hosker, Magna Carta

“many knights before he broke his own”
― Griff Hosker, Kingmaker

“to be prescient when a”
― Griff Hosker, Return of the Knight

“Eorledman”
― Griff Hosker, Blood Sword

“There’s no such thing as useless knowledge.  It’s just stuff you haven’t needed yet!”
― Griff Hosker, 1915 Fokker Scourge

“Round Peveril Castle – English Heritage Norman Knight AD 950–1204 – Christopher Gravett English Medieval Knight 1200–1300 – Christopher Gravett English Medieval Knight 1300–1400 – Christopher Gravett The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250–1400 – Christopher Rothero Lewes and Evesham 1264–65 – Richard Brooks”
― Griff Hosker, Lord Edward's Archer

“the throne and I have ensured that we are prepared should the worst happen in the future.” I looked around. Although I trusted all of my servants if one of King John’s spies heard my aunt he might deem it to be treasonous. “Do not fret, Aunt, I have also hidden coin. We will not have to be wanderers again.” She nodded, “Then you should know where my treasure is hidden, should … well I am no longer young.” I was about to speak and she held up her hand. “I am not a fool. God has taken everyone that I love save you and your family. One day he will take me.” She handed me a parchment. “William and I buried the chests so”
― Griff Hosker, Magna Carta

“Walter’s”
― Griff Hosker, St Crispin's Day

“seen.”
― Griff Hosker, The Welsh Marches

“there”
― Griff Hosker, Dieppe

“He”
― Griff Hosker, Wallace's War

“The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250–1400 – Christopher Rothero Lewes and Evesham 1264–65 – Richard Brooks”
― Griff Hosker, Lord Edward's Archer

“us boldly riding”
― Griff Hosker, The Road to Agincourt

“We rode in silence partly because we were listening for pursuit but also because men reflect after a battle. If there is the opportunity, they talk of it with the other warriors but when that is not possible, they have a conversation in their heads with themselves. They run over every blow they struck, wondering if they could have done it differently. Every warrior knows that he will have to fight again and learning from what you did could save you the next time.”
― Griff Hosker, War in the West