Mark Lawrence, Prince Of Fools Quotes
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.
A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.
Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!
You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.
It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.
Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.
Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.
I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.
There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I’m going to err towards beating you with this stick.
Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.
Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.
When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.
A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.
Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.