651 Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

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

He was developing a sneaking feeling he had found his way onto the wrong side. Again. But it’s not always easy to tell when you’re picking. Perhaps, as Kahdia once told him, you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

A name to fill strong men with fear or courage, depending on which side they stand.

Rising early. Of course. The second greatest virtue. It comes just behind ruthlessness.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don’t light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

There’s no changing yesterday. Only tomorrow.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

The least a leader can do is to share the burdens of his people. I have little other comfort to give them.

All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.