Howard Pyle quotes

Little John, mine own dear friend, and him I love better than all others in the world, mark, I prythee, where this arrow lodges, and there let my grave be digged.

One man calleth me kind, another calleth me cruel; this one calleth me good honest fellow, and that one, vile thief. Truly, the world hath as many eyes to look upon a man withal as there are spots on a toad; so, with what pair of eyes thou regardest me lieth entirely with thine own self. My name is Robin Hood.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

The proud I strive to bring low, but those that walk in sorrow I would aid if I could.

"Now, I swear that never again will I leave these dear woodlands. I have been away from them and from you too long. Now do I lay by the name of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, and take upon me once again that nobler title, Robin Hood, the Yeoman."

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

"I will be mine own, and no man in all merry England shall be my master."

Once I slew a man, and never do I wish to slay a man again, for it is bitter for the soul to think thereon.

it doth seem to me that instead of striving to cut one another's throats, it were better for us to be boon companions.

But when the oak falls in the forest the swine run from beneath it lest they should be smitten down also.

This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.