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You will stay and help defend our cave against all comers, protect those weaker than yourself and honor our code. Always use the sword to stand for good and right, never do a thing you would be ashame...

Brian Jacques

You will stay and help defend our cave against all comers, protect those weaker than yourself and honor our code. Always use the sword to stand for good and right, never do a thing you would be ashame...

Tags: honor, luke, martin the warrior, sword, warrior

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!

Brian Jacques

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!

Tags: hares, martin the warrior, the legend of luke

About Author
James Brian Jacques (, as in "Jakes"; 15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011) was an English author known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.

Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one? Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could s...

Brian Jacques

Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one? Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could s...

Tags: kneel, redwall

I'd burn the salad, suh. Us of the fatal beauty type are pretty awful cooks if y' ask me. - Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy Dotti

Brian Jacques

I'd burn the salad, suh. Us of the fatal beauty type are pretty awful cooks if y' ask me. - Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy Dotti

Tags: cooks, dotti

Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.

Brian Jacques

Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.

Tags: fun, games

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

Brian Jacques

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

Tags: cowards

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right.—The law of Badger Lords

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right.—The law of Badger Lords

Is because you are kind and good, not a hard-hearted pitiless rat like Cluny. Please listen to me. Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can fe...

Brian Jacques

Is because you are kind and good, not a hard-hearted pitiless rat like Cluny. Please listen to me. Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can fe...

I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.

Brian Jacques

I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

Brian Jacques

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

Tags: humor

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Brian Jacques

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Tags: future, useful, what if, whatif

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Tags: skill, weapon

I say, sah! Sorry to trouble you to get off your big fat bottom and help a poor gel out! I would not have helped if you hadn't have needed it. You were doing well on your own until the vermin started...

Brian Jacques

I say, sah! Sorry to trouble you to get off your big fat bottom and help a poor gel out! I would not have helped if you hadn't have needed it. You were doing well on your own until the vermin started...

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

Brian Jacques

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

Tags: humor, magic, squire julian, warrior

He came with death held in his pawWhich no rat born could faceOh woe to those who break the lawOf Sunflash and his mace!

Brian Jacques

He came with death held in his pawWhich no rat born could faceOh woe to those who break the lawOf Sunflash and his mace!

Boorab's spear was a window pole. He stood on the second step, barring their way. Who goes there? State y'business, wot? Brother Hoben tapped an impatient paw on the bottom step. Come out of the way,...

Brian Jacques

Boorab's spear was a window pole. He stood on the second step, barring their way. Who goes there? State y'business, wot? Brother Hoben tapped an impatient paw on the bottom step. Come out of the way,...

Tags: redwall

Who says that I am dead knows nought at all.I am that is,Two mice within Redwall. The Warrior sleaps Twixt Hall and Cavern Hole I am that is, Take on my mighty role... Look for the sword In moonlight...

Brian Jacques

Who says that I am dead knows nought at all.I am that is,Two mice within Redwall. The Warrior sleaps Twixt Hall and Cavern Hole I am that is, Take on my mighty role... Look for the sword In moonlight...

Tags: martin the warrior, redwall

Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear...

Brian Jacques

Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear...

Tags: fate, redwall, stars

Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're alwa...

Brian Jacques

Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're alwa...

Tags: friendship, inspirational, love, redwall

When weary day does shed its light, I rest my head and dream, I ride the great dark bird of night, so tranquil and serene. Then I can touch the moon afar, which smiles up in the sky, and steal a twink...

Brian Jacques

When weary day does shed its light, I rest my head and dream, I ride the great dark bird of night, so tranquil and serene. Then I can touch the moon afar, which smiles up in the sky, and steal a twink...