1,096 quotes found
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?”
“Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
“The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.”
“Without the rocks, the streams will lose their song”
“Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past”
“Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams”
“A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
“Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the...”
“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”
“Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thinga warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always ...”
“In the end, living is defined by dying.”
“If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.”
“The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. W...”
“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”
“Some had hurled spears first. Those spears thumped into our shields, making them unwieldy, but it hardly mattered. The leading Danes tripped on the hidden timbers and the men behind pushed the fall...”
“We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.”
“You may remember that on earththough of course we never confessed itthe death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with ...”
