Tristram Griffin Quotes in The Black Rose (1950)

Tristram Griffin: I was thinking about going with you.

Walter of Gurnie: To Cathay?

Tristram Griffin: Well, where's that?

Walter of Gurnie: Well, it's a long way from your forest.

Tristram Griffin: Well, maybe Sarah would like it there.

Walter of Gurnie: Now, don't talk too lightly about it, Tris,. If we should go to such a place, the chances are all you'll get out of it is that, in the end, you'll be hung by a Mongol instead of a Norman.

Tristram Griffin: Well, if it comes to that, I'd sooner give the pleasure to somebody I don't know than a Norman I hate.

Walter of Gurnie: A far land it is then. I guess this is the beginning.

Walter of Gurnie: [after the battle] I saw you at the beginning. You and your bowman against those fire tubes.

Tristram Griffin: They sounded like the anger of God! I think perhaps they were! They're killing every man, woman, and child in the district like harvesters through a field of grain! They pull their heads forward by the hair for the ax. Not one left alive! Like harvesters cutting wheat!