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Top 30 Rosemary Sutcliff Quotes (2025 Update)

Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”

1. “We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “And out of Tristan’s heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult’s a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore.”

2. “And out of Tristan’s heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult’s a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “If we break faith with thee, may the green earth gape and swallow us, may the grey seas break in and overwhelm us, may the sky of stars fall and crush us out of life for ever.”

3. “If we break faith with thee, may the green earth gape and swallow us, may the grey seas break in and overwhelm us, may the sky of stars fall and crush us out of life for ever.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “I have a special “ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast” feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.”

4. “I have a special “ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast” feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”

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

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “I sometimes think that we stand at sunset,′ Eugenus said after a pause. ‘It may be that the night will come close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows again out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.”

6. “I sometimes think that we stand at sunset,′ Eugenus said after a pause. ‘It may be that the night will come close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows again out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.”

7. “And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.”

8. “I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.”

9. “But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, “Greater love hath no man – ” and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.”

10. “The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, “Greater love hath no man – ” and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “That is thy home burning. That is the Normans’ work, and never thee forget it!”

11. “That is thy home burning. That is the Normans’ work, and never thee forget it!”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts.” – Helen, about the war.”

12. “Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts.” – Helen, about the war.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis’ body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.”

13. “A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis’ body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Close above him the window was a square of palest aquamarine in the dusky gold of the lamplit wall, and on the dark roof-ridge of the officers’ mess opposite was a sleeping pigeon, so clearly and exquisitely outlined against the morning sky that it seemed to Marcus as though he could make out the tip of every fluffed-out feather.”

14. “Close above him the window was a square of palest aquamarine in the dusky gold of the lamplit wall, and on the dark roof-ridge of the officers’ mess opposite was a sleeping pigeon, so clearly and exquisitely outlined against the morning sky that it seemed to Marcus as though he could make out the tip of every fluffed-out feather.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.”

15. “It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Presently I went back to my Companions, and slept under the apple trees, wrapped in my cloak and with my head on Cabal’s flank for a pillow. There is no pillow in the world so good as a hound’s flank.”

16. “Presently I went back to my Companions, and slept under the apple trees, wrapped in my cloak and with my head on Cabal’s flank for a pillow. There is no pillow in the world so good as a hound’s flank.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “He loved me and didn’t want me hurt. What was worse, he didn’t even understand that I had the right to be hurt.”

17. “He loved me and didn’t want me hurt. What was worse, he didn’t even understand that I had the right to be hurt.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Always, everywhere, the Wolves gather on the frontiers, waiting. It needs only that a man should lower his eye for a moment, and they will be in to strip the bones. Rome is failing, my children.”

18. “Always, everywhere, the Wolves gather on the frontiers, waiting. It needs only that a man should lower his eye for a moment, and they will be in to strip the bones. Rome is failing, my children.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “For one splinter of time their eyes met in something that was almost a salute, a parting salute between two who might have been friends.”

19. “For one splinter of time their eyes met in something that was almost a salute, a parting salute between two who might have been friends.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “The Commander was a complete contrast to his men: Roman to his arrogant finger-tips, wiry and dark as they were raw-boned and fair. The olive-skinned face under the curve of his crested helmet had not a soft line in it anywhere – a harsh face it would have been, but that it was winged with laughter lines, and between his level black brows showed a small raised scar that marked him for one who had passed the Raven Degree of Mithras.”

20. “The Commander was a complete contrast to his men: Roman to his arrogant finger-tips, wiry and dark as they were raw-boned and fair. The olive-skinned face under the curve of his crested helmet had not a soft line in it anywhere – a harsh face it would have been, but that it was winged with laughter lines, and between his level black brows showed a small raised scar that marked him for one who had passed the Raven Degree of Mithras.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “It was a small bothy, one step brought us to meet in the midst of it; my arms were around him, and his around me, the strong right arm and the maimed left that felt sapless and brittle as a bit of dead stick, and we held fast together, and wept somewhat, each into the hollow of the other’s shoulder. Maybe it is easier to weep when one grows old, than it was in the flower of life.”

21. “It was a small bothy, one step brought us to meet in the midst of it; my arms were around him, and his around me, the strong right arm and the maimed left that felt sapless and brittle as a bit of dead stick, and we held fast together, and wept somewhat, each into the hollow of the other’s shoulder. Maybe it is easier to weep when one grows old, than it was in the flower of life.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “You could give a slave his freedom, but nothing could undo the fact that he had been a slave; and between him, a freed-man, and any free man who had never been unfree, there would still be a difference. Wherever the Roman way of life held good, there would still be a difference.”

22. “You could give a slave his freedom, but nothing could undo the fact that he had been a slave; and between him, a freed-man, and any free man who had never been unfree, there would still be a difference. Wherever the Roman way of life held good, there would still be a difference.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Here in Isca Dumnoniorum, Rome was a new slip grafted onto an old stock – and the graft had not yet taken.”

23. “Here in Isca Dumnoniorum, Rome was a new slip grafted onto an old stock – and the graft had not yet taken.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “He could go back to all that now, to the hills and the people among whom he had been bred, and for whom he had been so bitterly homesick, here in the North. But if he did, would there not be another hunger on him all his life? For other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling?”

24. “He could go back to all that now, to the hills and the people among whom he had been bred, and for whom he had been so bitterly homesick, here in the North. But if he did, would there not be another hunger on him all his life? For other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling?”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “That rose-bush gave Marcus a sense of continuance; it was a link between him and those who had been here before him, here on the frontier, and the others who would come after.”

25. “That rose-bush gave Marcus a sense of continuance; it was a link between him and those who had been here before him, here on the frontier, and the others who would come after.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Rain it did, and that night in the atrium of the old farmhouse, they could here it hushing and pattering on the roof and among the broad leaves of the fig-tree outside; and the little breath of air from the open door that scarcely stirred the flame of the lamp on the table bore with it that most wonderful of all smells, the throat-catching heart-catching scent of rain on a hot and thirsty earth.”

26. “Rain it did, and that night in the atrium of the old farmhouse, they could here it hushing and pattering on the roof and among the broad leaves of the fig-tree outside; and the little breath of air from the open door that scarcely stirred the flame of the lamp on the table bore with it that most wonderful of all smells, the throat-catching heart-catching scent of rain on a hot and thirsty earth.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads were lower down than they are now, though of course that comes into it; but near in the sense of kinship. A small child is aware of the sights and smells and textures of the ground with an acute awareness that we lose in growing up.”

27. “As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads were lower down than they are now, though of course that comes into it; but near in the sense of kinship. A small child is aware of the sights and smells and textures of the ground with an acute awareness that we lose in growing up.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “It was a story that still hurt in the telling, which perhaps made it a worthwhile gift, after all.”

28. “It was a story that still hurt in the telling, which perhaps made it a worthwhile gift, after all.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “Watching the Commander’s hands on the bandage, it seemed to Beric more than ever strange and wonderful that Justinius should do this for him, a galley slave; should do it as though he cared. That was the most wonderful thing; not that Justinius should dress his wrist, but that he should do it as though he cared.”

29. “Watching the Commander’s hands on the bandage, it seemed to Beric more than ever strange and wonderful that Justinius should do this for him, a galley slave; should do it as though he cared. That was the most wonderful thing; not that Justinius should dress his wrist, but that he should do it as though he cared.”

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Rosemary Sutcliff Quote: “And here in Britain the wind moaned through the desolate woods, the skies wept, and wet gale-blown leaves pattered against the windows and stuck there, making little pathetic shadows against the steamy glass. There had been wild weather often enough in his own country, but that had been the wild weather of home; here was the wind and and rain and wet leaves of exile.”

30. “And here in Britain the wind moaned through the desolate woods, the skies wept, and wet gale-blown leaves pattered against the windows and stuck there, making little pathetic shadows against the steamy glass. There had been wild weather often enough in his own country, but that had been the wild weather of home; here was the wind and and rain and wet leaves of exile.”

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