651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

When you’re planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.

What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?” asked Notning.

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

The wiser a man is, the more he stands ready to be educated.

The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.