651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.

Help with strange problems comes from strange people.

All heroes’ news, like something from the songs, but there’s nothing like others’ successes to make your own failures sting the worse.

Wine can keep a happy man happy, on occasion. A sad one it always makes worse.

Aliz sighed. “War is terrible, isn’t it?” “It blights the landscape, throttles commerce and industry, kills the innocent and rewards the guilty, thrusts honest men into poverty and lines the pockets of profiteers, and in the end produces nothing but corpses, monuments and tall tales.

News spoils quick, friend, like milk.’ ‘I say it gets better if carefully kept, like wine.’ ‘I’m glad you like the vintage, but I ain’t buying yesterday’s news.

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.

Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.

He remembered other times and other campfires, when he had not been alone.