242 Quotes by David Gemmell

Any good that I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that’s all dung to a soldier.

It is said a man doesn’t get old while his mother lives. I think it’s true. You are always a child in her eyes. It is irritating in the extreme. But you know, when they have gone, you’d give the earth just to hear them treating you like a child once more.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.

I don’t know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man’s life that he cannot explain.

Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks...