Quotes About Victory

To regret the methods, you have to win." He couldn't stay on his feet any longer, and he grunted as he took one lurching step and the padded socket squeezed at his stump. "Once you've won ... who cares about the methods?

Few things indeed,' mused Pike, 'seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.

Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for.

It was a bad day for men, all in all, and a good one for the ground. Always the way, after a battle. Only the ground wins.

You seem happy enough," came Monza's voice, "for a man about to risk his life." Shiver's opened his eyes and turned his grin on her. "I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting." "I'm starting to think that's the only victory worth a shit," she muttered, almost to herself.

A man who'd lasted past his time. A man dragged back for one fight too many. But then, one is one too many.

I am ready to die, but I refuse to lose.

I fought on horseback often enough. Charged small bodies of infantry, broke and pursued them. A noble business, cutting men down as they run, I earned all kinds of praise for it.

No one remembers how the fight was won. I won. No one cares how.

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.

I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

No corpses, no glory.

Last Argument of Kings." Inscribed on his cannons by Louis XIV

Silence is a warrior's best armour, the saying goes. Hard looks and hard words have never won a battle yet, but they've lost a few.

Enemies are the price of success

There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.

Jaud planted his fists on his hips. "You made it, then." "Some turds float," said Rulf. Ankran

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive.

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of the river you called home.

But being right is of little value in war.

In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods. They certainly had 'em outnumbered.

You can only conquer your fears by facing them. Hide from them, and they conquer you.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but… not by much.

In the songs, Angulf Clovenfoot's Gettlanders fell upon the Vanstermen like hawks from an evening sky. Master Hunnan's misfits fell on Rissentoft like a herd of sheep down a steep flight of steps.