The Wisdom of Crowds
Joe Abercrombie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Some people, Orso supposed, can never forgive being forgiven.”
“She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.”
“But here’s the sorry truth – if you really don’t want a thing, you don’t have to keep telling yourself so.”
“Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man’s notion of good when it differs from ours.”
“The sad truth is, men love to follow a man other men fear,” said Clover. “Makes them feel fearsome, too. We tell the odd fond story of the good men. The straight edges. Your Rudd Threetrees, your Dogmen. But it’s the butchers men love to sing of. The burners and the blood-spillers. Your Cracknut Whirruns and your Black Dows. Your Bloody-Nines. Men don’t dream of doing the right thing, but of ripping what they want from the world with their strength and their will.”
“nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.”
“Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.”
“One must keep a close eye on the current definitions. To be unpatriotic would be terrible. To be patriotic in the wrong way could be fatal.”
“Freedom did not seem to have made anyone any less angry.”
“You must make of your quim a stone.”
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