Quotes from Wilbur Smith

Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on

there is no one on earth as dangerous as a really clever fool.

I prefer books that take me on a journey, whether it's across vast distances and epic landscapes or one that twists and turns and surprises me with what happens on each page.

About nine feet six and I weigh twenty stone, he answered, and almost laughed aloud. And how does it end? It ends with words. Words can kill anything. It ends with cold words; words like fire that stick in the structure and take hold and lick it up, blackening and charring it, bringing it down in smoking ruins. It ends in suspicion of things not done, and in the certainty of things done and remembered. It

Never choose a battle; only fight if you cannot walk away.

People are important. They are more important than gold or places or – or anything.

and headed back towards the entrance of the lagoon, but the

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As

Mr. Tyler, drop the anchor. We are as close

This was a man, tall and broad-shouldered, forged like steel in the furnace of life.

attempt to escape

It's not the dying," Craig told her quietly, "but the manner of it.

caravanserai. It was almost certainly they who

Your ambition has cost you dear, sir," Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.

I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.

the defences where a creek runs

In alto, lo sfavillio delle stelle cominciò a impallidire, appannandosi, e nel firmamento dilagò la promessa perlacea del nuovo giorno.

If a man doubts everything, then he will attempt nothing. The strong men of this world are the ones who are always certain of their own rightness.

world never had such wealth been assembled in one place at one

I saw you high upon a tree—" She broke off, and another single sob hit her like a blow. "The white man, the one you call Henshaw, the Hawk—do not trust him." "He is as my brother, and like a brother I love him." "Then why did he not weep, Bazo, why did he not weep when he looked up at you upon the tree?

chariots that I would design with

I have never loved a woman, and by God's grace, I never will.

He is here. There is the sweet perfume of death in the air.' He drew a deep breath. 'I love it even more than the smell of fresh quimmy.