152 Quotes by Conn Iggulden

You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.

Three hundred miles is just one step on a journey that I have on my mind.

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done – trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.

Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It’s a game that mustn’t never be taken lightly.

My word is Iron.

He had a vision of a nation. The incredible martial skills of the Mongol tribes had always been wasted against each other. From nothing, surrounded by enemies, Temujin rose to unite them all. What came next would shake the world.

No man could be a khan to his mother.

This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia – and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.