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Quotes About Saladin

Take the operation, Gabriel—for Hannah Weinberg, if for no other reason. Get inside the network. Find out who Saladin really is and where he's operating. And then put him down before another bomb explodes." Gabriel
~ Daniel Silva
En la horca negra bailan, amable manco, bailan los paladines, los descarnados danzarines del diablo; danzan que danzan sin fin los esqueletos de Saladín. ¡Monseñor Belzebú tira de la corbata de sus títeres negros, que al cielo gesticulan, y al darles en la frente un buen zapatillazo les obliga a bailar ritmos de Villancico!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
So when King Guy of Jerusalem (the overall ruler of the Crusader states in Outremer) refused to punish Reynald for his rampant douchebaggery, Saladin figured that it was up to him to kick this Reynald guy so hard in the gonads that his grandchildren would be born impotent.
~ Ben Thompson
It's cat food — it's for people like you!" Saladin
~ Gordon Korman
When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim al-Khazraji as Custodian of the Church, a role still performed today by his descendants, the Nusseibeh family.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. "Have you been messing with Saladin?" "No. Saladin has been messing with me," Ian shot back. "He isn't big on Lucians," Dan explained. "Animals are really good judges of character.
~ Gordon Korman
In 1186 Saladin in his turn proclaimed a Holy War. He promised his warlike hordes booty and adventure in this world and bliss eternal in the next, and advanced upon Jerusalem.
~ Winston S. Churchill