Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

Great men have great faults.

you should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

A coward's just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal,

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want. So Logen said nothing. Calder could take that for weakness if he pleased, and so much the better. Fights might find Logen depressingly often, but he was long, long past looking for them.

Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it!

Nothing to it. You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong.

Let Father Peace spill tears over the methods. Mother War smiles upon results.

A man so slimy he would have found employment as axle grease.

You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is no more than a child's tantrum.

You keep an oath not for the oath but for yourself.

the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

One body might just be a coincidence. Two make a conspiracy.

They say the seed you scatter will be the seed you harvest,

Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.

You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.

Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.

That was an age of great men doing what was right...This is an age of little men doing what they must.

He's really dead?" Benna blew out his cheeks. "Well, his head's off, and spiked above the gates, so unless you know one hell of a physician...

Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Never took an easy path if he thought it was the wrong one. Never stepped back from a fight if he thought it had to be done.