Quotes from Jan Guillou

One who hesitates, digs himself a grave.

A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.

An offence with words is the worst offence.Word kills

For the life and the future,it's more important to learn than to hate

Reading is a foundation o every knowledge an all the pure and the wise thoughts.

where wine enters, smartness goes away...

don't let the pride take over reason

Hesitation is a half way to death

Joy and disappointment, at the same time, are not a good combination, as is mixing a wine and an ale in the same jug.

Svenska Dagbladet var inte bara en ursinnigt antisovjetisk publikation, det var också den tidning den svenska motparten använde mest för att kanalisera sin aktivism; alla dessa ständiga bevislösa historier om Sovjetunionens militära aktiviteter runt Sveriges kust.

One who judges too soon, condemns himself.

The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.

nothing should make it haste without thinking first.

If you want peace, prepare for war.

What use do we have from the untruth when we eat together in peace and when each of us has given his word not to harm one another

Do we not give the Lord the greatest promises in the most dire moments?

Arn was about to say something about having too much work awaiting him, and that only at the end of the workday should a man enjoy the fruits of what he had accomplished by the sweat of his brow.

no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.

Svarte shared this view, but he was obliged to obey.

First a mean to gain knowledge and then the knowledge itself.

What troubled Father Henri was that Arn's apparently unwarranted worries might actually be expressing something else, a great loneliness.

A short time later he spoke to Brother Lucien, who vehemently rejected the idea in fright.

Svarte, who was reckoned the best smith at Arnäs, had watched Arn in the smithy and he reluctantly had to admit that there wasn't much he could teach the boy about hammer and anvil. If he were to be quite truthful, the opposite was more likely, which was embarrassing enough and not easy to swallow

Att säga att man respektera 'en lärare' är meningslöst eftersom 'lärare' bara är en titel. Frågan är om man kan respektera människan bakom titeln.