David Eddings

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

— David Eddings

“Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.”

— David Eddings

“The table quite literally groaned under its weight of roasted game,”

— David Eddings

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin

— David Eddings

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

— David Eddings

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

— David Eddings

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

— David Eddings

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

— David Eddings

“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus”

— David Eddings

“The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post. -Silk”

— David Eddings

“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.”

— David Eddings

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out…

— David Eddings

“Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.”

— David Eddings

Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

— David Eddings

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

— David Eddings

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

— David Eddings

Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him. "You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he…

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I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have…

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Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They…

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“Kroldor’s men are going to blame him for the way things turned out,’ Hettar observed. ‘I know. But then, that’s one of…

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Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. "They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara," she complained. "They're sitting one them." "You…

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Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end,…

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Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything.…

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“Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world…

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“Your extensive travels must have been fatiguing," Zakath said in that same flat tone, "particularly for the ladies. I'll see to it…

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We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The…

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Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts…

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Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed…

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“Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we…

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“I was reading an old text on the exploits of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and I –“ Senji stopped, going very pale, turned,…

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...Zedar was gone...As an owl, though, I was able to drift silently from tree to tree until I caught up with him...He…

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“...I can't abide snakes." "I don't even think of her as a snake." "Ce'Nedra," he said patiently, "she's long and skinny, she…

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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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Consistency is the defense of a small mind

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The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping…

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“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”

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Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to,…

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It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the…

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Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.

— David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

— David Eddings