What was the point of worshipping a god if he did not help you?
The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation and the Danes understood that. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal.
If a man loses his lord’s trust then he has lost everything.
Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear.
Christianity is a soft religion, a woman’s creed. It doesn’t ennoble men, it makes them into worms.
You should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.
You can’t live somewhere, if the people don’t want you to be there.
You can change a man’s heart, but not his head.
What do we look for in a lord? Strength, generosity, hardness, and success, and why should a man not be proud of those things?
There is nothing worse, Uhtred, than for a man to have no lord.
Tell me, what use is prayer, contemplation, or learning? Does prayer grow rye? Does contemplation fill a fishing net? Does learning build a house or plow a field?
