651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous.

He's really dead?"Benna blew out his cheeks. "Well, his head's off, and spiked above the gates, so unless you know one hell of a physician...

There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky and tricked himself that was how his life had been. But the years scraped by hard as ever and he got less and the stories more ’til they were tales of a man he’d never met succeeding at what he’d never have dreamed of attempting.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?

The greatest responsibility of a commander was not to command, but to look like he knew how to.

-Would it help if I said I was very drunk?Brachio shook his head. - We all were.-Shitty childhood?-Mummy used to leave me in a cupboard.-Shitty adulthood?-Whose isn't?

A man in charge can't have men putting questions. Just can't have it. They come with questions first, then they come with knives.