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Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) QUOTES

Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) QUOTES

1 " It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

2 " Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn’t possess is worthless. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

3 " An army isn’t made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That’s an officer’s job. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

4 " The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

5 " Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

6 " His men howled with him. They were caught up in Baird’s madness. At this hour, under the fire of the sun and emboldened by the arrack and rum they had drunk in their long wait in the trenches, the redcoats and sepoys had become gods of war. They gave death with impunity as they followed a warmaddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood. Baird would have his city or else he would die in its dust. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

7 " You know what circumcision is, Private? "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

8 " Yes, sir," Hicks said. He was a small young man, very officious, who would never contradict a superior. If Morris claimed the clouds were made of cheese Hicks would just stand to attention, twitch his nose, and swear blind he could smell Cheddar. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

9 " All that was needed to get ahead in the world was a bit of sense and the ability to kick a bastard faster than the bastard could kick you, and Richard Sharpe reckoned he had those talents right enough. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

10 " Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

11 " His charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

12 " So she needs a man!" Hakeswill said. "And a sergeant’s widow doesn’t get rogered by a stinking bit of dirt like you. It ain’t right. Ain’t natural. It’s beneath her station, Sharpie, and it can’t be allowed. Says so in the scriptures. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

13 " Passion, Baird reckoned, was what would take men across the river and up the breach. Damn scientific soldiering now. The science of siege warfare had opened the city, but only a screaming and insane passion would take men inside. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

14 " Thousands!" Appah Rao’s tone mocked the claim. "You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

15 " Till time ended, Baird suspected, there would be uses for a man and his sword. He "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

16 " We honour great men, we admire aristocrats, we applaud actors, we shower gold on portrait painters and we even, sometimes, reward soldiers, but we always despise merchants. But why? It’s the merchant’s wealth that drives the mills, Sharpe; it moves the looms, it keeps the hammers falling, it fills the fleets, it makes the roads, it forges the iron, it grows the wheat, it bakes the bread and it builds the churches and the cottages and the palaces. Without God and trade we would be nothing. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

17 " He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

18 " I ain’t seen a herd the size of it, not even when the Scots drive the beeves down from Scotland to London. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

19 " Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

20 " He was loose in his enemy’s rear, he was angry, and he was ready to give the bastards a taste of hell on earth. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)