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Michael Hirst Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“It is all the same with we women. We just give birth to the slaughtered.”
— Torvi, Vikings, Season 2: Blood Eagle
Tagged: War, Childbirth, Tragedy, Slaughter
“Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst. And corrupts the best.”
— Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 3: Mercenary
Tagged: Power, Corruption, Corrupt Politics
“The space between life and death, that’s where we are the most alive.”
— Floki, Vikings, Season 4: The Profit and the Loss
Tagged: Life, Death, Painfully Obvious
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to love, and a time to hate. A time of war, and a time of peace.”
— King Ecbert, Vikings, Season 4: On the Eve
Tagged: Ecclesiastes, purpose
“I am old enough to know that you can never say for sure what someone else will do.”
— Lagertha Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 5: The Departed Part Two
Tagged: Wisdom, Uncertainty
“Queen Katherine: Though I love Your Majesty and I'm loyal to you, in every way, I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness.

King Henry VIII: Well, you're going to have to.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 1: In Cold Blood
Tagged: Love, loyal, Distress, Unhappiness, Sassy
“One day I shall lie beside you again, I promise and we shall sleep together for eternity.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 3: Problems in the Reformation
Tagged: Sleep, Together, Eternity, Forever, Love
“Cardinal Campeggio: Michelangelo?! That was him?!

Pope Paul III: That was him. We forgive him, because he is a genius... whatever that means.”
— Pope Paul III, The Tudors, Season 2: His Majesty's Pleasure
Tagged: Michelangelo, Genius, Art, Forgivness
“Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.”
— Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 3: Mercenary
Tagged: Power, Being Humble, humbleness, From Servitude Comes Strength
“In time, the name of Ragnar Lothbrok will fade and be forgotten. No one will ever forget Ivar the Boneless.”
— Ivar, Vikings, Season 5: The Message
Tagged: Immortality, Death, Forgotten
“Up onto the overturned keel. Clamber, with a heart of steel. Cold is the ocean’s spray. And your death is on its way.”
— Rollo, Vikings, Season 4: The Profit and the Loss
Tagged: cold, Death, Death Threats
“You are a poet as I am a woman. Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not?”
— Anne Boleyn, The Tudors, Season 1: Wolsey, Wolsey, Wolsey!
Tagged: Poet, Woman, Free, Hearts
“If it pleases you to be my true loyal mistress and friend, to give yourself up to me body and soul, I promise, I'll take you as my only mistress. I won't have a thought or an affection for anyone else.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 1: Arise, My Lord
Tagged: loyal, Mistress, Friend, Body, Soul, affection
“My friend, if all ambassadors were beautiful women I'd be serving my country day and night.”
— Charles Brandon, The Tudors, Season 1: The Death of Wolsey
Tagged: Ambassadors, Beautiful, Women, serving my country
“Your Majesty's life is far too precious to be put at risk against such a common rabble. Of course, if you choose to go, you'd be like a lion among wolves.”
— Sir Francis Bryan, The Tudors, Season 3: The Northern Uprising
Tagged: majesty, Life, common rabble, Simile Examples, Precious
“Stones are much easier to wear than earth.”
— King Ecbert, Vikings, Season 3: The Wanderer
Tagged: stones, apparel
“I call Mary my English mare, because I ride her so often.”
— Francis I of France, The Tudors, Season 1: Simply Henry
Tagged: Sex, Riding, English Mare, Metaphor Examples
“Diplomacy is nearly always settled by such proximity.”
— Foxe, The Tudors, Season 1: Message to the Emperor
Tagged: Diplomacy, settled, Proximity, Logic
“As long as my brother is still alive, he is not defeated.”
— Rollo, Vikings, Season 4: Portage
Tagged: perseverance, alive, Defeated
“I never forget anything.”
— Lagertha Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 4: On the Eve
Tagged: Memory
“The future is open. Trust in the gods. Live for each moment.”
— Lagertha Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 2: Answers in Blood
Tagged: Future, Trust, Carpe Diem
“You couldn’t kill me if you tried for a hundred years.”
— Lagertha Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 1: Rites of Passage
Tagged: Defiance, Girl Power
“We have lost more knowledge than we ever had.”
— King Ecbert, Vikings, Season 2: Unforgiven
Tagged: Knowledge, Amnesia
“All of my life, and all of your lives, have come to this point. There is nowhere else to be but here. Nowhere else to live or die, but here. To be here now is the only thing that matters. So gather yourselves, gather all of your strength and all of your sweetness into an iron ball. For we will attack again and again. Until we reach and overcome their king, or we die in the attempt!”
— Rollo, Vikings, Season 4: The Last Ship
Tagged: perseverance, Battle, Attack, overcome, War, king
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