The Last Kingdom Quotes

“Interesting how an artist worked for months, applying knowledge gained during a lifetime, to create something any fool with a hammer could smash in a second.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“He’d dealt with his fair share of people like Fenn. The old saying was right. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Everybody liked to proclaim cooperation against the common enemy, but America possessed far too many intelligence agencies and everybody wanted to be a hero. The whole system ran on mutual mistrust, the military and civilian intelligence services never close, the whole thing designed to keep anyone from becoming either too complacent or too powerful. The problem wasn’t who was in charge. It was that everybody considered themselves in charge.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“He bent down and studied the red splotch. Fresh. Still liquid. Blood. Unlike in the movies or on television, he did not dip a finger in and test the sample. What idiot in the real world would actually do that? The amount of possible contaminants would be incalculable. Like when the on-screen cop pierces a bag of white powder with a knife, then tastes it. Really?”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“The White Rose student resistance movement to Hitler also rose here, its core members all arrested and executed. But at least they tried. Seventy”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“But, as field supervisor, he’d ordered the tape destroyed to protect the identity of the interrogators. Which drew the attention of Congress. What had Mark Twain said? Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Yep.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“He’d heard the talk. Some had begun to call him Mad King Ludwig. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, like everyone, he was simply searching for peace.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“When finished it had been the most ornate room in all of Germany, the first to be completed at the palace in the early 1880s. But no one ever slept here. Instead, it had been created only for show. Slender and Sinewy tried to act interested. But they weren’t. Their interest would be piqued shortly. In his brain he visualized the schematic of the second floor that he’d studied on the walk over. The ability came from an eidetic memory inherited from his mother’s side of the family. Not photographic, as many called it. Just a remarkable ability to recall details.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Hall”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Faciendi lures libros nullus est finis. From the Bible, describing a library. Of the making of books there is no end. How true.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. You got that right. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood. Who strives valiantly. Who errs and comes short again and again. He knew all about that. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet . - Angus Malone”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Patience is bitter, but it’s fruit is sweet. - Angus Adams”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Heat is a powerful motivator. – Warner Fox.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“mastered their fate was more important than what that fate was.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have to ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen. - William Churchill”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Nothing”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“state”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Talk slow, clear, and smart. If you can’t do all three, keep your mouth shut.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom

“Faciendi lures libros nullus est finis.”
― Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom