All Robin Hobb Quotes
- When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. Avoid
- History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. Breath
- My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought… Blood
- How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? Cannot Coexist
- A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… Bare
- It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How… Drumbeats
- Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? Anticipate
- Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Cloaks
- Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin Always Good
- It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer Already Forgiven
- One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. Inspirational
- That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.… Cannot Rise
- Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is… Change
- One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. Anticipate
- For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. Find
- The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will Brag
- Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Choice
- All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz… All
- Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? Besides
- If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly. Dog
- Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less. Inspirational
- The fight isn't over until you win. Determination
- King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. Expecting
- That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. Desire
- Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. Fear