Quotes About William

Lastly, the story that the Tapestry tells is inevitably selective and in places demonstrably inaccurate; some events are left out and others are deliberately distorted. No other source, for example, suggests that Harold swore his famous oath to William at Bayeux, or that it was Odo who heroically turned the tide for the Normans during the Battle of Hastings. The Tapestry, it bears repeating, is really an embroidery.

William was a monk at Malmesbury and had evidently seen inside the king's tomb.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

Thanks to the heroism of the Allies, the hour is approaching when the hordes of William the Madman will quit the soil of afflicted Belgium. After what they have done in cold blood, what excesses, what disasters must we not expect of the last convulsions of their rage? Our anguish is all the more poignant in that they are at this moment fighting in the most ancient and most precious portion of Flanders.

On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general.

It was alleged that artefacts from Caesar's army and William the Conqueror's

William!" I turned smiling. "Did they send you over?" William shook his head. "They're still arguing, and it's spreading. Your professor has opinions." I rolled my eyes, because it was William. "She's from Vinland. As far as she's concerned, wildlife is something you shoot first and study later. She's been complaining about the menagerie animals since the day she got to Mill City, especially this one.

In 1689, Protestant forces loyal to William of Orange, the new king, had managed to hold the city against a siege by a Catholic army loyal to James II.