David Gemmell Quotes

Fear is like a fire in your belly. Controlled, it warms you and keeps you alive. Uncontrolled, it burns and destroys you.

The Pinance laughed. “I hate the man, but I have never before seen him as a fool or a coward.”
“He is not a military man, my lord. He is a schemer, skilled in the art of politics and treachery.”
“It seems to me that those two beasts are one and the same,” said the Pinance.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze — a poor man would I be if I could not.

All legends have a base in fact.

"It seems to me that a man has only as much power as we allow him. Can Ceska move mountains? Can he put out the stars? Can he tell rain to fall? He is only a man, and if everyone disobeyed him, he would fall. But they don’t, do they? It is said that he has an army of forty thousand men. Men. Drenai men! Ready to march on other Drenai men. At least in the Nadir Wars we were sure of our enemy. Now there is no enemy. Only failed friends.”

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

I am not going to kill a man because he won't let us rob him." "Then go back to your mother and send for a man who wants to win.

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

The world would be a sad place without mysteries.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more than black, and silver tarnishes.

It is a rare man who notices a handsome woman.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

A fighting force is like a sword-blade. You can't test it until it has passed through fire.