Author: Conn Iggulden

Cites

• Homer (3)
  • IN: Genghis: Birth of an Empire (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
  • IN: Genghis, Birth of an Empire (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
  • IN: Wolf of the Plains (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Bible (3)
  • IN: Genghis: Lord of the Bow (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance, they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses everyone one put in stray, like a man to the battle.
    FROM: Bible, Jeremiah 50: 41-42, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Ghengis, Lords of the Bow (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
    FROM: Bible, Jeremiah 50: 41-42, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Stormbird (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 10:16, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Jacob Burckhardt (1)
  • IN: Emperor: The Gods of War (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Switzeland
• Heinrich Heine (1)
  • IN: Emperor: The Blood of Gods (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am the most peaceable of men. All I ask is a humble cottage with a thatched roof, a good bed, good food, fresh milk and butter, flowers before my window and a few fine trees at my door; and if the dear Lord wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before their death I shall forgive them all the wrongs they did me in their lifetime. One must forgive one's enemies - but not before they have been hanged.
    FROM: Letzte Gedichte und Gedanken, (1869), Book, Germany
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1)
  • IN: Bloodline (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
    FROM: The Knight's Tale, (1400), Short story, UK
• William Shakespeare (4)
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Ravenspur (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We will unite the white rose and the red.
    FROM: Richard III, (1597), Play, UK
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Stormbird (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
• William de la Pole (1)
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Stormbird (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Mine heart is set, and all mine whole intent, To serve this flower in my most humble wyse As faithfully as can be thought or meant, Without feigning or sloth in my servyse; For know thee well, it is a paradyse To see this flower when it begyn to sprede, With colours fresh ennewyd, white and red.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Edmund Burke (1)
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Trinity (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
    FROM: Letter to Charles Fox, 8 Oct. 1777 (Corr., II, 387.), (1777), Letter, UK
• Anonymous [15th century English chronicler] (1)
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Trinity (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The realm of England was out of all governance ... for the king was simple ... held no household, maintained no wars.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK