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Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3) QUOTES

Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3) QUOTES

1 " I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg. "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

2 " I will say little more. Cugel, you have small acquaintance with the trade, but I take it as a good sign that you have come to me for training, since my nethods are not soft. You will learn or you will drown, or suffer a blow of the flukes, or worse, incur my displeasure. But you have started well and I will teach you well. Never think me harsh, or over-bearing; you will be in self-defeating error! I am stern, yes, even severe, but in the end, when I acknowledge you a worminger, you will thank me."
"Good news indeed," muttered Cugel "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

3 " I give dignity second place to expedience,” said Cugel. "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

4 " You sing siren songs of inducement! "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

5 " An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

6 " give dignity second place to expedience "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

7 " aloof from the society of ordinary mortals, "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

8 " Very well then ! Look along the dock yonder ; you will notice three persons standing under the street - lamp . All are men . The faces of each are hidden behind hoods and veils . For this precaution there is reason : the ebullience of the local females . So vivacious is their nature that men dare not display their faces for fear of provoking ungovernable impulses . Female voyeurs go so far as to peek through windows of the clubhouse where the men gather to drink beer , sometimes with their faces partially exposed . "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)

9 " Cugel is a man of discernment!" declared Bunderwal. "I would rate him an applicant of fair to good quality, and I urge you to ignore his long spatulate fingers which I last noticed on Larkin the baby-stealer. There is a significant difference between the two: Larkin has been hanged and Cugel has not been hanged. "

― Jack Vance , Cugel's Saga (The Dying Earth #3)