Christian Cameron Quotes

Sometimes, the gods are kind. And hubris is the worst of sins.

...[Strive to be]... silent and cheerful. Grown men always tell you that this is the way of excellence, but they neglect to tell you that it is easier to be silent and dignified and cheerful when you are forty and have won ten battles. It's like getting women - much easier when you are too old to enjoy them - Killer of Men

Seguin made his decision. He raised his lance, held it over his head –no mean feat –and called out. 'To hell!' he shouted.
In terms of pre-battle speeches, it was the best I've ever heard.

Dandamis then looked at Alexander with pity. 'You have nothing I want,' he said. 'Once, you might have been a passable philosopher, but now you value no opinion save your own. You wander because you cannot bear to be still-you conquer because you cannot bear to rule.

...there is no such thing as a ferocious charge uphill.

How the gods must have laughed

And for the rest, I remember little enough. Except that we were happy, and healthy, and in love.
It didn't last. Nothing worth having ever does. But it was the happiest time of my young life.

There's good things about wearing armour. One is that if your horse bounces you through deep brush, all that happens is that you get pine-needles in your visor.

I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years.

Boys torment each other when there's nothing else to do and no Frenchmen to fight.

Slave or free, a man is nothing but a pile of bones and flesh with blood in the middle.

It is a hard thing, to reach this point on this long road, and know that I am not the hero. I am the villain. I have killed a thousand men, taken a thousand women, enslaved ten thousand.' He raised his hands. 'What does that make me?