Quotes by : Rosemary Sutcliff

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work....

She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should....

But against sandfly fever one could be inoculated, and I have another, hideously vivid picture of a great....

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself,....

I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because....

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but....

As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads....

He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to....

See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must....