“A terrible crime was committed on the splendid sunny morning of April 12, 1204; and the Pope, who had designed the expedition, and the King of France, who had backed it, must share the blame with the conscienceless Count of Flanders and the evil old Doge.”— Steven Runciman
“Now I know you: for that reason I burn more fiercely, but in my sight you are a cheaper and a lighter thing.”— Gaius Valerius Catullus
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”— Red Cloud
“My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”— William Kidd
“Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.”— Walter Savage Landor
“Adolf is a swine. He will give us all away. He only associates with the reactionaries now.”— Ernst Röhm