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Michael Hirst Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“Warriors don’t show their heart until the axe reveals it.”
— Floki, Vikings, Season 2: Blood Eagle
Tagged: warrior, Keeping It Bundled Up, Not Showing Your Emotions, Stoic
“The world is changing and we must change with it.”
— Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 2: Invasion
Tagged: Change, Life, go with the flow
“I have no interest in peace. Peace is a dirty word.”
— Ivar, Vikings, Season 5: Homeland
Tagged: Peace, In Praise of Violence, War, Violence, Against Peace
“Don’t waste your time looking back. You’re not going that way.”
— Ragnar Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 4: What Might Have Been
Tagged: Moving On, The Past, The Past Is The Past, Letting Go
“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
“As a humanist I share your opinion. As a King, I'm forced to disagree.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 1: In Cold Blood
Tagged: humanist, king, Forced, Disagree
“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
“The more complicated a person is, the more interesting he is. But at the same time, the more dangerous he is.”
— King Ecbert, Vikings, Season 3: The Wanderer
Tagged: interesting, Unique Individuals
“You Vikings are incorrigible. You emerge from the womb with only one thing on your mind…how to die.”
— King Ecbert, Vikings, Season 4: In the Uncertain Hour Before the Morning
Tagged: Incorrigible, womb, Death Wish
“There's something deep and dangerous in you, Anne, those eyes of yours are like dark hooks for the soul.”
— Thomas Boleyn, The Tudors, Season 1: Simply Henry
Tagged: Deep, dangerous, Eyes, dark hooks, Soul
“If still they do not submit, Mr. Cromwell, then I promise the utter destruction of them, their wives and their children. Do you understand me? I will destroy them all.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 3: Civil Unrest
Tagged: submit, Winning, Destruction, wives, Children
“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
“You hate him like a scorpion. And why? Because he would not satisfy your ambition and make you pope by force.”
— Catherine Of Aragon, The Tudors, Season 1: Look to God First
Tagged: Hate, Simile Examples, force
“You are the milk of human kindness, the light in my dark, dark world. Without you, life is a desert, a howling wilderness.”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 3: The Death of a Queen
Tagged: milk, human kindness, dark, Light, Life, Complete
“I have come here to die. I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper. Life is very beautiful.”
— Catherine Howard, The Tudors, Season 4: Bottom Of The Pot
Tagged: Queen, Wife, Identity, Life, beauty, Life Is Beautiful
“Some men lust for women, and others lust for gold, but I only lust to please the gods.”
— Floki, Vikings, Season 3: Born Again
Tagged: Lust, Women, gold, gods
“In the name of our dead father, in the name of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of our country, and in the name of Odin, we declare war on the whole world.”
— Ivar Boneless, Vikings, Season 4: The Great Army
Tagged: world war, Dead Father, Hero, country, Odin
“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
“The only way to tell if something is real is to sail there.”
— Bjorn Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 4: The Last Ship
Tagged: sailing, Exploring, Conquering
“You can love, perhaps for a year, a month, a day, even for an hour. And in that hour I do believe you love as well and deeply... as any man. But after that hour, you love not! You love another, and then another. Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful.”
— Princess Margaret Tudor, The Tudors, Season 1: Truth and Justice
Tagged: Love, Fleeting love, Loving Others, generous, Hurtful
“Now I am indeed Queen.”
— Anne Boleyn, The Tudors, Season 2: Matters of State
Tagged: Queen, fact, royalty
“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
“I write poems, I don't know how to be 'a poet.'”
— Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Tudors, Season 1: His Majesty, The King
Tagged: Poems, Poet, writer
“ I want jousts, carnivals and banquets organized in honor of the birth of my son. I have not yet decided whether to call him Henry or Edward! I've asked the French Ambassador to hold him at the font during his christening. If he drops him, it's war!”
— Henry VIII of England, The Tudors, Season 2: Checkmate
Tagged: jousts, carnivals, banquets, Celebration, Honor, Birth, Baby, War
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