Quotes from Conn Iggulden

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

luxury is fleeting, but enjoy in it while lasts.

Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short

How you raise your sons and daughters matters. The wife who warms you at night matters. The joy you take in being alive, the pleasure of strong drink, companionship and stories. All that matters, but when you are dust, other men go on without you.

The world has grown too large for one army of the nation, my brother. You will ride where I tell you to ride, conquer where I tell you to conquer. The world is yours, if you can put aside the base part of you that tells you to rule it all. That you may not have. Now give me an answer and your oath. Your word is iron, brother, and I will take it. Or I can just kill you now.

No man can think on everything;we can only be ready for everything

You respect orders because if you don't do this, you won't be able to expect the same from your people. You're a part of the wolf and not the entire wolf. A wolf cannot have more than one head, general, because it will fall apart

You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.

You have no idea what you have done.

You're not children to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

A past is comforting because it' certain.

A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.

He who controls the heartland controls the world.

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight

I came to these lands because when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity remain. Shall I do less for the nation I have made? Shall I allow them less honor than I claim for myself?

I say you are tribeless wanderers, without marks of rank or blood,' Khasar said. 'Don't leave your posts while I am gone. I am going to ride into the city over your bodies.

In hunger, one doesn't choose

Perfection is in the little things

It was not that authority came without crushing weight, just that the alternative was living at another's whim.

It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.

A man could waste his life worrying, that was all too clear. Sometimes you simply had to choose and shrug, however it came out, knowing that you could not have done more with the bones you were given.