Christopher Denton > Christopher Denton's Quotes

“Nothing to it. You treat folk the way you’d want to be treated, and you can’t go far wrong.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Trilogy Boxed Set: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Those with the least always lose the most in war.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“History is littered with dead good men.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“But you love to play the good man,
don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a
hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an
excuse.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“The lamplight gleamed on the Magus’ white grin. “People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Life is a series of things we would rather not do.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful had no need of.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“There’s nothing worth less than what men think of you after you’re back in the mud.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Does the devil know he is a devil?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings