Colin Greenwood Quotes

Hast thou seen a saucy wench hereabouts?” “I hath seen no saucy wench,” said Colin, using the term with difficulty, for the white frightened face of his Lady of the Greenwood haunted him. “Nor art thou free to trespass on my master’s land with so hare-brained an excuse. Get thee gone without delay.

Aged 36, Victoria was that odd mixture of autarchy and girlish silliness, half Boudicea, half Violet Elizabeth. ‘War is indeed awful … I never regretted more than I have done these last few months that I was a poor woman and not a man!’ she had told the Duke of Cambridge after the Battle of Inkerman, bosom presumably heaving with emotion under imaginary Elizabethan armour.