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Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7) QUOTES

Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7) QUOTES

1 " Yet to complain of the world’s unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. Unfairness existed, it always had and it always would, and the miracle, to Sharpe’s eyes, was that some men like Hill and Wellesley, though they had become wealthy and privileged through unfair advantages, were nevertheless superb at what they did. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

2 " He came from the gutters of England and anyone born and raised in those gutters knew that most persecution and oppression was inflicted by lawyers. Lawyers were the devil's servants who ushered men and women to the gallows, they were the vermin who gave orders to the bailiffs, they made their snares from statutes and became wealthy on their victims and when they were rich enough they became politicians so they could devise even more laws to make themselves even wealthier. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

3 " Yet to complain of the world’s unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

4 " of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

5 " Liberty! Man has no liberty except the liberty to obey rules, but who makes the rules? With luck, Kate, it will be reasonable men making reasonable rules. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

6 " Giving inspiration to a lawyer, Sharpe thought sourly, was like feeding fine brandy to a rat. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

7 " The road lay to the south of the River Cavado which ran clear and deep through rich pastureland that had been plundered by the French so that no cattle or sheep grazed the spring grass. The villages had once been prosperous, but were now almost deserted and the few folk who remained were wary. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)

8 " it’s full of Frenchmen who are raping anything that isn’t dead and probably things that are dead if they’re still fresh, "

― Bernard Cornwell , Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpe, #7)