The Outlaws Of Sherwood Quotes
"A small vagrant breeze came from nowhere and barely flicked the feather tips as the arrow sped on its way."
"Robin sighed and dropped his bow. There were some people, he thought, who not only could shoot accurately but seemed to know when and where to expect small vagrant breezes."
"His father had taught him to shoot; he had also taught him to make and fletch his own arrows."
"He would rather have had any local fame, however slight, as an archer."
"He was young and strong and still hopeful; this Chief Forester, who sent him on all the most disagreeable tasks, was old."
"But the money was useful; as one of the youngest sub-apprentice foresters in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, he barely earned coin enough to feed himself."
"Today Robin had the great fortune to be free to go to the Nottingham Fair, and perhaps his holiday meant his luck was looking up at last."
"Bill Sharp’s name was not called at all, and that made Robin’s happiness even greater."
"Robin was to meet Marian and Much at the fair, and they would see the sights together."
"I don’t," said Marian cheerfully. "But I’m a good guesser— and a good actor, am I not?"
"It’s your first wages, if you like, although we cannot pay wages."
"Snow fell rarely, and only a little of it sifted through the many branches."
"Fear of spraining your other wrist should keep you awake."
"A man the height of a Midsummer bonfire would find himself preoccupied with self-defence."
"We might go the long way round, and wear the fidgets out, as with a fractious horse."
"An outlaw interested in glory will have a short life."
"I thought he sang too little sweetly for listening long when his throat lay under my roof-tree."
"Sir Miles, I challenge any man of you to single combat!"
"As God is my witness, he treats men fairly and taxes them only as befits a king’s loyal man."
"I am also calmly eating venison and would recommend you do likewise."
"There is nothing to tell me that we’ve been found or that we’ll be successfully followed, but we are about to twist the sheriff’s tail for him very hard, and he will try his best to turn and bite us for it."
"The energy of sheer rage can do remarkable things sometimes."
"The sun never shines like this on the Nottingham market."
"Remember that we are an army of the faithful, come to rout the heathen enemy, and step out boldly."
"I know naught of what happens here, though I see you know each other past this day’s meeting and in no friendly attitude."
"I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it."
"Beauty gave the single cry of a hound welcome, and Tuck emerged from the chapel path into the meadow, turning to face the way Beauty stood, and said to the trees: 'They have gone, they who would ask me of you; you may come out from where you watch in hiding.'"
"He began to realise that much of the crashing he was hearing was of Guy’s men searching for their attackers: as he watched, one man of Guy’s troop paused, panting and at a loss, at the edge of the clearing, looking wildly around."
"Robin said savagely, 'I mean to take him with an arrow in the back, if I can. It will be no less a choice than he gave Marian.'"
"Little John caught Cecily as her knees buckled, and Tuck came up to them. Little John was staring into her face with a haunted, hungry expression."
"Marian’s eyes drifted shut, and for a moment he thought she was gone from him, and he stared at her breast till his eyes, now accustomed to the shadows, saw the faint rise and fall of her breathing."
"Friar Tuck’s voice creaked as Guy of Gisbourne’s armour did not, and for the moment he could not make his dogs mind. He stood staring at Beauty, knowing that his face reflected the shock and sorrow that he felt."
"I didn’t know that little things like shoulders could hurt so much."
"This will hurt," said Tuck. "It can’t hurt more," said Cecily. "Yes, it can," said Little John.
"Then I hope I faint," she said. "Because if I do not, I will scream."
"I shall try not to fall out of my tree from either faintness or drunkenness," she said.
"You great idiots, by how many do Guy’s men outnumber us? I am no good for this work."
"Try to keep a few of us alive till I get back, will you?"
"Look out, man!" said Will. "Do you think you are invisible?"
"Dear God… What can I ask for? A bolt of lightning?"
"You need not make me any bows," said the king. "I know of your wounds, and I do not wish to compel any of my subjects to unnecessary pain."
"You are still a lord’s child," said Little John, "and my family has been free for less than a generation; and my first act was to lose our holding."
"You are now mine, to do with as I choose; and what I tell you, you must obey."
"I might have you ordered hung out on Sir Richard’s gibbet at dawn and it should be done."
"You are doughty fighters and I have need of such."
"A soldier who no longer bears arms is still a soldier."
"You may lose your country—and I my new sheriff, which does not please me—and perhaps your life."
"I hope not to lose her; I may at least not lose her to my own stubbornness."
"I do not wish to waste Robin Hood’s obstinacy, you see."
"Prettily said. I am almost moved to forgive you the loss of my new sheriff."