Stuart Long > Stuart's Quotes

“The whole point of drifting was happy passive acceptance of no alternatives. Having alternatives ruined it.”
― Lee Child, Tripwire

“ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.”
― Lee Child, Tripwire

“The problem with getting your rights abused was that somebody had to witness it for it to mean anything. Somebody had to see it happen.”
― Lee Child, The Visitor

“Never forgive, never forget.”
― Lee Child, The Visitor

“Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation and the Danes understood that. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“My arms are my bed-hangings,
And my rest’s the bloody fray.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“In madness lies change, in change is opportunity and in opportunity are riches.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North

“Fate is inexorable. It grips us like a harness.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“You never, ever, tell others of your crimes, not unless they are so big as to be incapable of concealment, and then you describe them as policy or statecraft.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song

“Cowardice is always with us, and bravery, the thing that provokes the poets to make their songs about us, is merely the will to overcome the fear.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song

“Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom Series #1-6

“Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song