Quotes by : Rosemary Sutcliff

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

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

Jean and I had, as I think a great many best friends have, a secret make-believe world of our own. We....

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....

My mother was the perfect Spartan mother. I have always been able to imagine her telling her sons to....