Quotes from Joe Abercrombie

Hay que dar a los demás el mismo trato que uno querría recibir,

Progress just means bad things happen faster." Terry Pratchett

there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand. Horror, shock, pain, fear, worry. None were out of place.

A kiköt?ig ért a házam el?tt tipródó udvarlók sora, és én már nem bírtam a férfias könnyek árját, kénytelen voltam menekülni.

Forma parte de la naturaleza de los hombres, y sobre todo de los ambiciosos, ser infelices.

You're going for a feeling. Make them think you're one of them.

It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you're lying on your deathbed, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

Naturally, as soldiers, you all are prone to be sentimental about warfare. But fighting is only any use when it's cheaper than the alternatives.

The Fates knew, she could have used some comfort. But some people need to be held up. Which means some people need to do the holding.

Nadie tiene mucho tiempo, y el tiempo que pasas compadeciéndote es tiempo perdido.

A grin spread across his face. Seeing it made her smile. Her first in a while. Hardly felt like her mouth should bend that way.

There are a hundred reasons to carry a blade in a slaughterhouse. But there can only ever be one reason to try and hide one.

Change, Friendly . . . change is a funny thing. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

People love the idea of freedom but, in my experience, there is only so much they can be trusted with. You saw what Judge did with it. Take it far enough, freedom becomes chaos. The voice of the people… is just noise. It is the blather of the lunatics in the madhouse. It is the squeal of the pigs in the slaughterhouse. It is a choir of morons. Most of them don't even know what they want, let alone how to get it. They need someone to tell them what to do.

Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

Snake!" screamed a woman, and Vick recoiled, then realised it wasn't a warning but a sales pitch. "Best snake meat!

The conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.

Oh, come now, money shamefully made from trade fills the same holes in the treasury as the kind nobly wrung from the misery of the peasantry.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

Good treachery takes effort.

Why were you never scared of me?' 'You just never seemed all that scary. Always found your eye sort of pretty. Shiny.' Rikke patted his scarred cheek. 'You always just seemed … lost. Like you lost yourself and didn't know where to look.' She put her hand on his chest. 'But you're in there, still. You're in there.

That look. Little bit hungry. Little bit scared.

In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.