Glen Cook Quotes

Like most villains, he was wicked only most of the time and mainly in small-minded ways.

Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.

Time is the most wicked of all villains.

Sadly, after years of study, I realize that most history may pivot on personal considerations like that, not on the pursuit of ideals dark or shining.

Though not as bad as most, he was going through that stage where he knew everything worth knowing and nothing his elders said—particularly if it bore any vaguely education hue—was worth hearing. He could not help that. It went with the age.
And I was my age and could not help saying things I knew would do no good.

We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.

It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing."
"I don't understand."
"Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.

We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.

They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.

Death will find a way.
Even the gods must pass.

The best of the diviner breed are never wrong because they never set anything in stone.

It is a saying of my people. Even Water sleeps. But Enemy never rests.

I still got all my limbs and I'm still breathing."
"Makes you a winner in the soldiering game.

Somebody a lot smarter than me once said, “Put no trust in wizards.”

I must be driven. I figured that as long as I had to stay out there I ought to keep scouting around. Working in my sleep. Ought to have the Old Man double my pay. How much is two times a stab in the back?