543 quotes
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I’d already lost it.
Shards of Honor (1986)
If you make it plain you like people, it’s hard for them to resist liking you back.
Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
Memory (1996)
Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.
Cetaganda (1996)
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
Paladin of Souls (2003)
Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.
The Borders of Infinity (1987)
Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.
The Hallowed Hunt (2005)
Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.
The Hallowed Hunt (2005)
It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.
The Hallowed Hunt (2005)
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It’s peace that’s wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
The Vor Game (1990)
Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.
Komarr (1998)
The world is not always so friendly a place that you can afford to squander your advantages on a pointless conceit.
Penric's Fox (2017)
Pen wondered at a world that hanged poor men for thievery, but celebrated great ones.
Masquerade in Lodi (2020)
The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012)
Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.
Falling Free (1988)