Damien Lewis > Quotes

“Fight for all you hold dear. Die as if it counts. Life is not so hard Nor is death.”
― Damien Lewis, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

“It won't work, Robert," Rybar repeated, "but that doesn't mean we don't have to try.”
― Damien Lewis, The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side

“the SOE was formed to carry out operations seen as being too politically explosive, illegal, or unconscionable to be embraced by the wider British establishment.”
― Damien Lewis, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

“Let me be brave and gay again Oh Lord, when my time is near. Let the god in me rise up and break The stranglehold of fear. Say that I die for Thee and the King, And what I hold most dear.”
― Damien Lewis, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops

“Backer”
― Damien Lewis, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

“freedom must be fought for, every day.”
― Damien Lewis, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

“Since then he had shown himself to be ferocious in battle, famously prone to injury, a born raider and a true survivor, having brought one desert patrol ‘back from the dead’, spending weeks crossing the sunblasted Sahara on foot and evading the enemy. In short, Fraser was second only to Mayne in terms of martial prowess and spirit.”
― Damien Lewis, Forged in Hell: The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi Stranglehold

“diesel fumes”
― Damien Lewis, The Nazi Hunters: The Ultra-Secret SAS Unit and the Hunt for Hitler's War Criminals

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who live it after we are gone?’ Winston Churchill”
― Damien Lewis, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

“More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.’ Josephine Baker”
― Damien Lewis, Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

“come”
― Damien Lewis, SAS Band of Brothers: The Action-Packed Story of a Daring Escape that Ended in Betrayal

“Wynne carried Smoky to the lawn outside, where he propped her into a GI helmet, to recreate the winning Yank Magazine image for the Red Cross photographer. But Smoky's tongue was hanging out exhaustedly, and it struck Wynne that she looked more like a dog-tired, war bitten soldier, than what she had been back then - namely, the gift that never stopped giving.”
― Damien Lewis, Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II