Miles Cameron > Quotes

“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I’ve done it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The Red Knight sighed. ‘Sometimes I think you all take me for granted,’ he said and went off to wash the blood off his hands.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“But all you have to do is lie. If enough people lie, all the time, then there isn’t enough truth for law to work. That’s how I see it.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The devil can quote scripture,” she said.

“No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.
'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“Those who have known pain should have mercy on others.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Dariusz felt something like admiration for the Red Knight. They clearly read the same books.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“Jamie, to the best of my understanding, anything you do to help a woman who needs help is chivalry. In this case, that’s ploughing.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“My da—” Diccon looked at the ground. “… my da calls me ‘Bent.’”
Robin smiled. “No. Sorry, Diccon. It’s a good name, but a master archer had it and it died with him. Got another?”
“My mother calls me a God-Damned Fool,” Diccon said with a smile.
“Good, you’ll fit right in.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“You expect everyone to cooperate with the law. To make the law work." Duke took a deep breath. "But all you have to do is lie. If enough people lie, all the time, then there isn't enough truth for the law to work. That's how I see it." He looked at his feet. "If enough men are greedy, and willing to lie to get what they want?" He raised his head and faced them. "Then it's easy. Their way is easy. And you lot will sit here and debate.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“Never ascribe to some conspiracy of evil what can be explained as easily by ignorance and fear.”
― Miles Cameron, The Plague of Swords

“Boasting is a way of saying you are weak,”
― Miles Cameron, Cold Iron

“Whenever you think you are very clever, that’s when you are getting ready to be awesomely stupid.” “Based”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“Nell was not by his side, and Kit Foliak would never buy another gold embroidered sword belt.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“To the captain, piety came in three brands—false piety, hypocritical piety, and hard won, deep and genuine piety. He fancied that he could tell them apart.”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“Gelfred,’ the captain said, with a bitter smile. ‘God doesn’t give a fuck.’ Their”
― Miles Cameron, The Red Knight

“He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God.” He leaned over. “While you sinned while praising God.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword

“He could take some extra fencing lessons. He was in love with his sword, purchased in a used clothing market on a whim. With his rent money, because he was a fool.”
― Miles Cameron, Cold Iron

“War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.”
― Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

“Never ascribe to some conspiracy of evil what can be explained as easily by ignorance and fear.” Gabriel”
― Miles Cameron, The Plague of Swords

“Do you know that in the Archaic Empire, the Master of Spies referred to every agent by the name of a flower or an animal or some such - never by their own names. Not even their sexes were known."
"Sex?" asked Guisarme. "We wouldn't use women as spies, would we?"
There was the briefest pause, as there always is when a dozen men realise that one of their number is a fool.”
― Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword