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Top 25 David Drake Quotes (2025 Update)

David Drake Quote: “Life’s a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you’ve been under the hammer a few times, you’ll find you’ve been beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There’ll.”

1. “Life’s a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you’ve been under the hammer a few times, you’ll find you’ve been beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There’ll.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,” “Gentlemen-Rankers,” Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling.”

2. “To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,” “Gentlemen-Rankers,” Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling.”

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David Drake Quote: “History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

3. “History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

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David Drake Quote: “A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can’t be indecisive.”

4. “A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can’t be indecisive.”

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David Drake Quote: “As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won’t catch them, or, what’s worse, you might.”

5. “As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won’t catch them, or, what’s worse, you might.”

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David Drake Quote: “I don’t have any problem with what other people believe, so long as they don’t expect their beliefs to affect my behavior.”

6. “I don’t have any problem with what other people believe, so long as they don’t expect their beliefs to affect my behavior.”

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David Drake Quote: “The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair,” Adele said at last. “I think some people should be thankful for that reality.”

7. “The universe has never appeared to me to be particularly fair,” Adele said at last. “I think some people should be thankful for that reality.”

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David Drake Quote: “A fire department isn’t a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.”

8. “A fire department isn’t a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “I’ve decided that it’s better to be alive until it’s time to be buried.”

9. “I’ve decided that it’s better to be alive until it’s time to be buried.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.”

10. “I suppose I would be wiser to adjust my attitude rather than to expect the universe to change reality.”

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David Drake Quote: “Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

11. “Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

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David Drake Quote: “I sat in on a late-night party once in which the subject of friendship came up, and I listened in dumbstruck incredulity as one man explained that his friends had to like the same things he did – that they must not only read the same books and magazines he did, and listen to the same music, but pretty much share his opinions of all those things. He.”

12. “I sat in on a late-night party once in which the subject of friendship came up, and I listened in dumbstruck incredulity as one man explained that his friends had to like the same things he did – that they must not only read the same books and magazines he did, and listen to the same music, but pretty much share his opinions of all those things. He.”

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David Drake Quote: “Logic wasn’t the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.”

13. “Logic wasn’t the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.”

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David Drake Quote: “At that point I made all of them shut up while I explained that a friend is someone who will give you a drink from his canteen and watch while you sleep.”

14. “At that point I made all of them shut up while I explained that a friend is someone who will give you a drink from his canteen and watch while you sleep.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “Arrogance wasn’t the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.”

15. “Arrogance wasn’t the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.”

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David Drake Quote: “People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.”

16. “People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.”

17. “If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.”

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David Drake Quote: “Come on, Sunshine, if you think you’re hard enough.”

18. “Come on, Sunshine, if you think you’re hard enough.”

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David Drake Quote: “It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.”

19. “It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.”

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David Drake Quote: “So long as authority comes only from having a hand on a throat, wisdom and mercy are a moot point.”

20. “So long as authority comes only from having a hand on a throat, wisdom and mercy are a moot point.”

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David Drake Quote: “Dogs don’t need philosophies, they just fight. It seems to me that men do the same, though they usually come up with reasons. Justice is a good one.”

21. “Dogs don’t need philosophies, they just fight. It seems to me that men do the same, though they usually come up with reasons. Justice is a good one.”

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David Drake Quote: “It’s all right for a leader to be ruthless, Adele thought. He shouldn’t be whimsical, though, and he especially shouldn’t be whimsically ruthless.”

22. “It’s all right for a leader to be ruthless, Adele thought. He shouldn’t be whimsical, though, and he especially shouldn’t be whimsically ruthless.”

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David Drake Quote: “Lieutenant Daniel Leary ambled through the streets of Kostroma City in the black-piped gray 2nd Class uniform of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. He was on his way to the Elector’s Palace, but there was no hurry and really nothing more important for Daniel to do than to savor the fact that he’d realized one of his childhood dreams: to walk a far world and see its wonders first hand.”

23. “Lieutenant Daniel Leary ambled through the streets of Kostroma City in the black-piped gray 2nd Class uniform of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. He was on his way to the Elector’s Palace, but there was no hurry and really nothing more important for Daniel to do than to savor the fact that he’d realized one of his childhood dreams: to walk a far world and see its wonders first hand.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.”

24. “Danger is another thing that’s more romantic to read about than the reality of blood and burns and the screams transcending age and gender and even humanity. Pain can be a sound, pure sound, and pictures can’t prepare you for the smell of a man trying to stuff his intestines back into his ripped abdomen.”

— David Drake

David Drake Quote: “Many times information was most effective when it wasn’t used. The same was true of any other weapon.”

25. “Many times information was most effective when it wasn’t used. The same was true of any other weapon.”

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David Drake Quote: “The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn’t in the other people.”

26. “The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn’t in the other people.”

— David Drake

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