David Gemmell Quotes - Page 5

Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

All legends have a base in fact.

What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.