You Big Swords think you're good riders, good cavalrymen, but you have a long way to go, and you'll never be Mongols. - Malcolm Bosse

Look, children, it's very simple. What's going to happen is this. If you people go forward, we eat bread. If you people retreat, we eat sticks. That is all there is to war. Let no one tell you different.

An acrobat is lucky to die with the price of a coffin in his pocket.

Peasants can fool you They give in like sheep. They run away and hide. They offer their daughters if you'll let them alone. But suddenly one of them does a thing like this [and tries to kill you].