328 Quotes by Scott Lynch

Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

Wise in the ways of all such things is Jean Tannen," said Jean. "Wiser by far than most; especially most named Lamora.""Shut your fat, ugly, inarguably wiser face," said Locke.

I’m done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn’t a stage and I didn’t pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone’s death speech. You don’t fucking get one, understand? I don’t care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry.

You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch.

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!