651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

I may be black bastard, but at least I know what I am.

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,’ snapped Lorsen.‘Indeed,’ said Cosca, significantly. ‘The cock-rot is rarely fatal.

Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.’ - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

Of all things, men most love to watch ohers face Death. It reminds them they yet live.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!