Alex Rutherford > Quotes

“Have no fear of your ambitions.Stare them in the face ,fulfill them.Remember nothing is impossible...”
― Alex Rutherford, Raiders from the North

“No weapon is more powerful than he who aims it.”
― Alex Rutherford, Raiders from the North

“Dreams of greatness came easily. Achieving it was harder.”
― Alex Rutherford, Raiders from the North

“Any man can be vengeful, only the truly great can be merciful.”
― Alex Rutherford

“Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating.”
― Alex Rutherford, Ruler of the World

“The art of reigning is so delicate that a king must be jealous of his own shadow”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Traitors in the Shadows

“Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks.”
― Alex Rutherford, A Kingdom Divided

“brink”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

“ebullient”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

“shirk”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

“William Finch, Hawkins’s assistant, who is the source for the story of Akbar’s concubine Anarkali, ‘Pomegranate Blossom’;”
― Alex Rutherford, Brothers at War

“Perhaps, until this moment, he had not quite believed that Samarkand really existed. Now there was no doubt. This was no fable, no haunt of phantoms, but a place, inhabited by men of flesh and blood, that he had come to claim as his own. Babur”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From the North

“boastful,”
― Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

“I can’t allow the pages of my life to turn with nothing memorable inscribed upon them.”
― Alex Rutherford