Blade Itself Quote by Joe Abercrombie Download Open image ““The blade itself incites to deeds of violence’ Homer”” — Joe Abercrombie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blade Itself
“At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live.… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“warrior hero such as Ajax, Hector or Achilles must be willing to fight in hand-to-hand combat day after day. He must be able, physically and psychologically, to plunge a sword into the body of another human being, and to risk having a sword plunged into his own. He must be brutal and ready to risk brutality. At the same time,… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share
“Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time of war's ugly brutality and what Yeats called its "terrible beauty." The Iliad accepts violence as a permanent factor in human life and accepts it without sentimentality, for it is just as sentimental to pretend that… — Bernard Knox Copy Share
“One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.” — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.” — Tiziana Stupia Copy Share Image
The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning, the conflict… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
“Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.” — Alexandria Constantinova Szeman Copy Share Image
“THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the Journey.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.” — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“She shrugged. “I fell. I’m a clumsy fool.” “I know how you feel. I’m such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“What do the dice say?" Dice say nothing. They are dice." Why roll'em, then?" They are dice. What else would I do with them?” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Knives,’ muttered Calder, ‘and threats, and bribes, and war?’ Bayaz’ eyes shone with the lamplight. ‘Yes?’ ‘What kind of a fucking wizard are you?’… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
