Author: M. K. Hume

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Battle of Kings (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud? Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests? Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud? Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts? Or kings be breakers of their own behests? But no perfection is so absolute That some impurity doth not pollute.
    FROM: The Rape of Lucrece, (1594), Poem, UK
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (1)
  • IN: Death of an Empire (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Three years after this, he himself [Constantine, King of Britain] ... was killed by Conan, and buried close by Uther Pendragon within the structure of stones, which was set up with wonderful art not far from Salisbury.
    FROM: Historia regum Britanniae, (1136), Book, UK
• Aristotle (1)
  • IN: Dragon's Child (2009) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Our characters are the result of our conduct.
    FROM: Nicomachean Ethics, I, (-340), Book, Greece
• Zeno of Citium (1)
  • IN: The Blood of Kings (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
    FROM: Lives of the Philosophers, (None), Book, Greece
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Bloody Cup (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
  • IN: Web of Deceit (2013) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Do not hide that 'twas he was my heart's love, Whatso'er I love beside.
    FROM: Celtic poem, (None), Poem, UK
• Plutarch (1)
  • IN: The Ice King (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation, shows a man unfit to hold an office.
    FROM: Parallel Lives, Quintus Fabius Maximus, (125), Book, Italy
• Euripides (1)
  • IN: The Last Dragon (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: When passions come upon men in strength beyond measure, their gift is neither one of glory nor of greatness.
    FROM: Medea, (-431), Play, Greece
• Robert G. Ingersol (1)
  • IN: The Storm Lord (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
    FROM: Some Reasons Why, (1895), Book, US
• Gildas (1)
  • IN: Warrior of the West (2009) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Then all the councillors, together with that proud tyrant Vortigern, the British king, were so blinded, that, as a protection to their country, they sealed its doom by inviting in among them (like wolves into the sheepfold), the fierce and impious Saxons, a race hateful both to God and men, to repel the invasions of the northern nations.
    FROM: De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ("On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain"), (530), Book, UK