Quotes by Giraldus Cambrensis
“The Irish are a rude people, subsisting on the produce of their cattle only, and living themselves like beasts.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“The people are light and agile, fierce rather than strong, and entirely bred up to the use of arms.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“A people so prone to civil wars and dissensions, and so easily overthrown in a general contest, but so difficult to be subdued in minor skirmishes.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“Nature has given not only to men, but to birds and beasts, a hatred of what is spurious.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“Since the whole world is, as it were, a prison for the human race, we are all fellow-prisoners.”— Giraldus Cambrensis