77 Quotes by Janny Wurts

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy.

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Talith confronted the self-contained prince she recalled much too clearly from the tumultuous events that surrounded a failed coronation.

The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear." The Master's words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. "Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters?

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.