152 Quotes by Conn Iggulden

I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.

The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.

A man should always care about pleasing his wife.

He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan’s vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn’t matter what other people thought of him – even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don’t have to use.

It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, ‘Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.’ Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.

After tonight, we will be with the spirits and see the hills of home,” he called to them. “The khan will hear. He will sweep this land clean.

When we meet again, Spartan,’ he murmured aloud, in prayer, ’when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.