Matt Williams > Matt's Quotes

“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

“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

“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they 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

“That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Better to do it, than to live with the fear of it, and so forth.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

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

“An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“A man who does't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities,” said Cosca.
“They think they’re in the right.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present,”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“Course. Doing better next time. That’s what life is.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“That’s what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever’s nearest, even if it’s his own house!”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. “I don’t like this,” he muttered under his breath.
“You think I do?” Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. “You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“There’s nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance