The English Quotes

Short or long, we ain’t here but a moment. You nor me. None of us.

Sometimes just to see a thing is enough to let it go.[to Cornelia]

I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve lost father, mother, wife, sons, daughters, friends. Family. I’ve seen villages razed and I’ve razed them myself: men, women and children, shot, cut, stuck, hung. I’ve seen Hell and I’ve made Hell. And I’ll carry it from here to the sky beyond. But don’t expect me to care for one boy.[to Cornelia]

Difference between what you need and what you want is what you can put on a horse.[to Cornelia]

Ain’t no destiny in this. Just a whole lot of aiming. And then one day a miss. And that’s it.[to Cornelia]

Never say how a thing’s gonna turn out ’til it does.

Ruin is formal, Devil’s work. Consecutive and slow… Fail in an instant, no man did…

It’s a shock to see the exact value of a man’s life laid out on a table.[to John]

If wishes were where we would be, then we would be where we are not.

I sometimes wonder if there’s horror in us all.