187 Quotes by Jack Vance

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Good music always defeats bad luck.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

We are a down-trodden race.”“You are a down-trodden race because you are lazy,” said Chilke.“If I am lazy and you are not, how is it that I am carrying your baggage while you walk light-foot?”For a moment or two Chilke deigned no explanation of the seeming paradox; then he said: “If you knew anything about the laws of economics, you would not ask such a banal question.

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.