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CLAIRVOYANT, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
~ Ambrose Bierce
for St. Andrew, who testified upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In Bacon we see the culminating prime Of British intellect and British crime.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Hitler, Pol Pot. Funny, isn't it? How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world? I wonder why that is.' And Kai had responded, 'Because they're mad.' She had dug a sharp elbow into his ribs. Then she shook her head. 'But they do, don't they? They do change the world.
~ Aminatta Forna
A man so slimy he would have found employment as axle grease.
~ Joe Abercrombie
One body might just be a coincidence. Two make a conspiracy.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But I'd rather not add to my regrets. The gods know I got a queue of the bastards.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason.
~ Joe Abercrombie
How you feeling Forley?' asked the Dogman. 'Bad, but you got to have fear to have courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It's a fool who makes folk choose too often between loyalty and good sense.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The Young Lion. What kind o' name is that?' 'Ridiculous.' Clover held up his hands and fluttered the fingers. 'The Great Wolf! Now that's a name.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There was a long, ugly pause. Uglier than the child of a man and a sheep, as the hillmen have it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Is it coming for me? Several tons of rock, about to splatter my remains across the city? What a ludicrously random way to die. He felt his mouth twitch up in a faint smile.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love is fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I think I picked up some passengers from one of those women at the tavern. Little bastards don't half give a man an itch.' Huh. The women are paid to go there. One might have thought the lice would have better taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If she knew about the luggage, she was trouble. And Fallow had no sense of humour about his cock, to which none of the ointments had made the slightest difference.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I am Odem`s nephew. Uthirk´ s son." (Yarvi) "Oh, dear gods", he heards Samuel whistling, " We are dead
~ Joe Abercrombie
Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I myself have left a thousand tasks unfinished, unstarted or outright failed across the whole breadth of the Circle of the World. In the end, they bother me considerably less than my successes." "I'm
~ Joe Abercrombie
Whatever have you been feeding her?" "Fire and whetstones," said Yarvi, smiling.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A petty gesture, perhaps, but the weak must thrive on small revenges.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else.
~ Joe Abercrombie