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The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6) QUOTES

The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6) QUOTES

1 " Shit at least makes flowers grow. Honour isn’t even that useful. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

2 " Change, Friendly . . . change is a funny thing. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

3 " That’s what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

4 " But being a bastard was crime and punishment both. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

5 " The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones, "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

6 " Dignity wasn’t much help to the living, it was none to the dead. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

7 " Live long enough, you see everything ruined. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

8 " swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

9 " The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

10 " You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don’t seem like people at all no more, but something else. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

11 " Strange, that however tough one’s skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

12 " Dignity ain’t much use to the living, it’s none to the dead. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

13 " My old mentor Sazine once told me you should laugh every moment you live, for you’ll find it decidedly difficult afterwards. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

14 " When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

15 " You start some trouble, it’s best to start it and finish it all at once. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

16 " So it always is with mercenaries. Easily hired, even more easily discharged and never missed once they are gone.’ Friendly "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

17 " Nice things, morals, but prone to chafe at times like this. "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

18 " Desperation bakes heroes from the most rotten flour, "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

19 " Dark times are the best for dark business, "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)

20 " A man sleeps through most of his life, even when awake. You get so little time, yet still you spend it utterly oblivious. Angry, frustrated, fixated on meaningless nothings. That drawer does not close flush with the front of my desk. What cards does my opponent hold, and how much money can I win from him? I wish I were taller. What will I have for dinner, for I am not fond of parsnips? "

― Joe Abercrombie , The Great Leveller (First Law World, #4-6)