Single word Quote by Andrew Marr

“PHILIP II, WARLORD OF MACEDON: If I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your…

— Christopher McDougall

“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

“[The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by…

— Plutarch

“When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright”

— John Green

“Once again, Rommel took my arm. “Luck, one day you will think of my words. The threat to Europe and to our civilized world…

— Hans von Luck

“You’re terrified that my father will hear that you’ve taken me prisoner. No Spartan woman marries a coward!” “Watch your tongue,” Theseus growled, his…

— Esther M. Friesner

“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the…

— Sulari Gentill

“Spartans left it all on the battlefield. They had a saying, “Come back with your shield, or upon it.” In other words, either come…

— Dominic Mann

“First of all, you don’t want me to get too hungry. Ever. I’m an ever worse bastard than normal and having starved for centuries,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“They cannot conquer for ever!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien