Simon Scarrow > Quotes

“You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality”
― Simon Scarrow, Arena

“We get what fate deals out to us, lad. And we have no choice about how we handle it.’
Cato smiled. ‘What’s this? Philosophy?’
‘Experience, lad. Much better.”
― Simon Scarrow, Invictus

“What is the value of being a criminal investigator in a state run by criminals ?”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up.”
― Simon Scarrow, Under the Eagle

“A glorious victory has a funny way of erasing memories of the reasons why a victory was needed in the first place.”
― Simon Scarrow, The Eagle and the Wolves

“It was hard to live in a country where her people’s citizenship, property and almost every civic right had been stolen from them.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“anticipate opportunities to be exploited and dangers to avoid.”
― Simon Scarrow, Death to the Emperor

“Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action,”
― Simon Scarrow, The Legion

“You’d have to be a mad dog or a Celt to venture out into the noonday gales in this dump, I tell you.”
― Simon Scarrow, The Blood Crows

“That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?”
― Simon Scarrow, The Generals (Wellington and Napoleon 2)

“Lawyers, eh? They’re a nuisance at the best of times. Worse when they get a bee in their bonnet about pursuing justice.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“There will be a reckoning for the evil that is being done, but I fear that won’t come for some time. Months . . . years . . . who can say? In which case, it is our duty to survive and bear witness.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“And who will be the first to speak up if we have all consigned ourselves to the cowardice of silence? People need to know that they are not alone in opposing the party if those who truly love Germany are ever to rise up on the day that the regime is vulnerable.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“then abruptly turned and scurried away, darting into a passage a little further”
― Simon Scarrow, Traitors of Rome

“The slaves had been doing their best to”
― Simon Scarrow, The Eagle's Prey

“nervously.”
― Simon Scarrow, The Eagle's Prophecy

“I am not saying things will not change. But for now, the party’s hold on power is absolute, and they will destroy those who challenge them. If their grasp weakens and there is a real chance to depose them, then and only then is it reasonable to speak up.”
― Simon Scarrow, Dead of Night

“then”
― Simon Scarrow, Centurion

“A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.”
― Simon Scarrow, Arena

“Soldaten sollten diszipliniert werden, nicht hospitalisiert.”
― Simon Scarrow, Im Zeichen des Adlers

“A few deaths was a crime, a multitude merely a statistic, as someone had once said, more or less.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“There was another pause. ‘I must say, I found the contents of your bookshelves fascinating.’ ‘So you said. I like to read what interests me.’ ‘That’s fine, until you no longer can. You can’t be blind to the party’s direction of travel. They won’t be satisfied until they have determined precisely what we can read, what we can think, what we can feel.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“Era típico del gobierno de Nerón que el emperador se tambaleara de una crisis a otra, comprando tiempo y constantemente mediante promesas imprudentes de pan gratis y más juegos para mantener distraída a la gente, mientras los senadores más valiosos eran demasiado cobardes como para enfrentarse a él.”
― Simon Scarrow, Warrior: The epic story of Caratacus, warrior Briton and enemy of the Roman Empire…

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years watching men shed blood in the arena, it’s this. Being a gladiator isn’t just about physical strength. It’s about thinking on your feet. You, young man … you show admirable resourcefulness when your back is against the wall”
― Simon Scarrow, Arena

“You speak the language far better than”
― Simon Scarrow, The Generals

“More worrying still, it had changed the curriculum in schools, indoctrinated children and turned some against their parents.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“Surely, he thought, next to a battle lost there is nothing so dreadful as a battle won.”
― Simon Scarrow, The Eagle's Prey

“the harbour entrance, the sails were furled and the crews unshipped the oars and rowed the warships”
― Simon Scarrow, The Eagle's Prophecy

“It’s like the country has been taken over by the kind of people who underperformed at school and refuse to read anything more complicated than the headlines of the gutter press. Anyway, enough of them. Let’s not think about it.”
― Simon Scarrow, Blackout

“to Camulodunum and told me the story. The others were not”
― Simon Scarrow, Brothers of the Sword