A Question of Honour Quotes

“They welcomed him as a hero, but he now knew that heroes were soon created by those needing reflected glory.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“He left her on the tow-path and began the long walk back to barracks. As he trudged along in the fast-gathering dusk his mood grew bleaker. Females created nothing but trouble.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“Khartoum! The very sound of it was daunting when spoken by men in red coats at Knightshill. It rhymed with doom.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“Men tend to devote themselves to those things which fascinate them to the point of obsession,’ she observed, as they reached the overgrown brambles through which there was only a narrow twisting track. ‘They are excessively selfish creatures, in the main.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“that coin purse rather than sell it. With a heavy heart, Vere accepted that his brother had been a military hero, but a man of little honour.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“he had discovered some astonishing things. It was possible for Vere Ashleigh to find friendship with the type of man he had formerly disliked; it was possible to earn the respect and camaraderie of such men by being himself. An imposter they would not tolerate; a producer of life-like pen-portraits they had taken to their hearts.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour

“To meet so briefly, then to lose you to the desert!’ Rising swiftly, she walked to the doors opening to a veranda where she stood gazing at something beyond his vision. ‘I hate it. I fear it. It is like the ocean. It takes men and devours them, then flows onward as if they had never been.”
― Emma Drummond, A Question of Honour