Tad Williams Quotes
born 1957 United States
Tad Williams (born 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
- United States
- Novelists
- Short story writers
Also known as: Otherland
53 quotes
Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.
The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
Things are not always as old songs tell them to be—especially when it is concerning dragons.
There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.
I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion—the two cannot live together.
There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.
A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.
We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.”
Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tad Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.