Quotes About Alfred

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

This was the darkest hour of Alfred's fortunes. It was some months before he could even start a guerrilla. He led "with thanes and vassals an unquiet life in great tribulation…. For he had nothing wherewith to supply his wants except what in frequent sallies he could seize either stealthily or openly, both from the heathen and from the Christians who had submitted to their rule." He lived as Robin Hood did in Sherwood Forest long afterwards.

Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping judgement would not be too heavy upon him.

I eyed the spirit. "You know the name 'Alfred' is a joke, right?" It stared at me. A wind that didn't exist stirred the hem of its cloak. I raised my hands in surrender and said, "All right. I guess you need a first name, too. Alfred Demonreach it is.

Bryn ate her bagel in silence, and by the time she was finished, Liam had already neatly packed her overnight bag and loaded it in MacAllister's car. He even included a new dog bed for Mr. French to travel in confort. Lunch was in moducal little boxes. I think he is Alfred. Actually, I often wonder if he's Batman.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

the shires which Alfred not so long before had been obliged to surrender to the Vikings remained for the most part united till the twelfth century under the common designation of "Danelaw". But the region so named extended well beyond the limits within which the study of place-names reveals intensive Scandinavian settlement.

Alfred responded to the invasion by summoning an army

there seems to be no good reason to doubt that Alfred could have done at least some translating,

Wessex alone had survived, and Alfred had done his best to repair the damage it had suffered.

Alfred's additional reason for assembling his A-list of intellectuals was to assist him in producing books

Alfred had returned with one purpose – to confront and destroy the Danes who were occupying his kingdom

Alfred's luck could not last forever, and in 875 the viking attack on Wessex was resumed.

thanks to God's will – Alfred was victorious.

What happened to English after the Battle of Ethandune was that it not only endured, it thrived, it grew. Having held steady under fire, it moved forward. The two principal reasons for this were Alfred himself and what seems to me to be the profoundly self-preserving nature of the language which had so slowly and doggedly alchemised into English.