187 Quotes by Jack Vance

What are your fees?” inquired Guyal cautiously. “I respond to three questions,” stated the augur. “For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

I don’t know nothing for sure, except water runs downhill and I gotta pay my rent.

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft.

But I’ve sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

The secret, so Shimrod knew, was never to accept the fairies’ terms, but always to close the deal on one’s own stipulations, otherwise the bargain was sure to turn sour.

An enemy, perhaps. Ah, so simple. Liane will kill you ten men. Two steps forward, thrust – thus!” He lunged. “And souls go thrilling up like bubbles in a beaker of mead.

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

Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. So.

Bending, she kissed Glawen’s cheek. “Thank you for a lovely day.” “Wait!” cried Glawen. “Come back!” “I think not,” said Wayness, and ran off up the path to Riverview House.