727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate

I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.