# Gates of Fire

- Author: [Steven Pressfield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire

## Quotes

> Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/do-you-love.md)

> I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.

p. 371 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/i-believe-him.md)

> This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.

p. 405 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/this-aspis-was.md)

> Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

p. 427 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/why-have-i-nominated.md)

> If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!

p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/if-you-think.md)

> I had always wondered what it felt like to die.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/i-had-always.md)

> I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon

p. 47 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/i-have-always.md)

> There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong.

p. 324 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/there-is-something.md)

> You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/you-have-never.md)