172 Quotes by Jo Walton

You can’t trust everything that ass Plato wrote,” Sokrates said.

What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.

The Republic isn’t as much fun as The Symposium. It’s all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle.

I talked far more than I should have. I knew it even at the time. I just couldn’t stop myself. I didn’t actually interrupt anyone, which would be unforgivable, I just didn’t hold back enough to give other people a turn.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world’s only realist landscape painter.

Morally, magic is just indefensible.

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we’re always living on somebody’s dunghill.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can’t imagine them properly now.