Best 25 quotes of Janny Wurts on MyQuotes

A masterbard's given duty was to ease the hearts of the bereaved.

Arithon lent a disarming appearance of frailty. Beneath wind-flicked tangles of dark hair, his expression reflected the careless ennui of high-breeding, the features, sharp-faceted marble.

A soldier’s life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We’re here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.

Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

Hate has no ears.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard’s revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

The curse that afflicted this scion of s'Ilessid had become everything the Fellowship of the Seven had warned and worse.

There's a choice?" "Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear." The Master's words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. "Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters?

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

You can't let your past write the future

You don’t have to like a man to respect him.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.