651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Well, he’s scraping up what there is. Reckon we’ll need every ready hand when it comes to a battle. Yours too, maybe.’‘Oh, you’ll have to hold me back!’ Calder slapped the hilt of his sword. ‘Can’t wait to get started!’‘You ever even drawn the fucking thing?’ sneered Tenways, stretching his neck out to spit again.‘Just the once. I had to trim your daughter’s hairy cunt before I could get at it.

Is it gold?’ asked the lad.‘Copper,’ she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

You can’t understand! You’re not...a man.’‘Had I been confused on that point, it was put beyond doubt when I pushed you out of my womb. Have you any notion how much you weighed as a baby? Spend two days shitting an anvil we’ll talk again.

I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink.

Aye, well, one person’s mad is another’s remarkable.

In case you never noticed, bards have a habit of dressing things up. There is a fine living, d’ya see, in songs about deep-wise witches, but in shitty idiots, less.

War?’‘It’s when a fight gets so big almost no one comes out of it well.

Cairm Ironhead was a very different prospect. His scar-crossed face was a fortress of frown you could’ve blunted an axe on, eyes like nails under a brow like an anvil, cropped hair and beard an uncompromising black.

Great men have great faults.