The Red Knight Quotes

“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I’ve done it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The devil can quote scripture,” she said.

“No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“To the captain, piety came in three brands—false piety, hypocritical piety, and hard won, deep and genuine piety. He fancied that he could tell them apart.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Gelfred,’ the captain said, with a bitter smile. ‘God doesn’t give a fuck.’ Their”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“We bring you no peace, but a company of swords, my lady.” He grinned at his own misquote of scripture. “We don’t make the violence. We merely deal with it as it comes to us.” “The devil can quote scripture,” she said. “No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“His sword took the nearest neatly, because killing fleeing infantryman was an essential part of knightly training, taken for granted, like courage.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Men tire quickly when they are scared. A patrol in hostile terrain is the most tiring thing a soldier can do short of violence.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“If there is a god, how can he allow so much fucking misery and deserve my thanks for it?”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“It had been done to leave terror. It was almost artistic.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The devil can quote Scripture," she said.
"No doubt he had his hand in writing it," the captain shot back.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Bringing you to fight the Wild is like buying a wolf to shepherd sheep.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“fifty good wagons”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Младостта не е за младите”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Victory and defeat are for amateurs,” Tom said. “For us, there is only life and death.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Tom shook his head. “They don’t love the likes of us, Captain. Even when I kill their enemies, they don’t love me.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Like all beautiful women, you seek to make an insult of my flattery,”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The captain shook his head. “Mag, what do my thoughts of good and evil mean to the worms in the road? I can be the most honourable knight who ever lived, and my horse’s iron-shod hooves will crush their soft bodies every step, after a rain.” He smiled at her. “And I won’t even know.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“They were going to do that thing that they did. When they moved like lightning and struck like the hammer on the anvil. Soldiers know, feel, these things. And luck rose about them, as if they were magi casting words of power with the hooves of their horses.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“And then, like the end of a kiss, he was himself.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight