Top 11 Mercenary Quotes

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Player, People, Mercenary

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Running, Ordnance, Mercenary

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Men, Lows, Mercenary

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

Prostitution, Call Me, Mercenary

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Reason, Mercenary, Screenwriters

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ties, Mercenary, Hard

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.146, Harvard University Press

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Basketball, Endeavor, Mercenary

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Winning, Shells, Mercenary

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

Technology, Plot, Mercenary

David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev)

Brother, Ouch, Mercenary

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Heart, Men, Mercenary

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

Mercenary Quotes