Quotes by David Eddings

I wouldnt do that, Silk advised. Thinking about it isnt going to help, and its only going to make you nervous.Nervouser, Garion corrected. Im already nervous.Is there such a word as nervouser? Silk asked Belgarath curiously. There is now, Belgarath replied. Garion just invented it.I wish I could invent a word, Silk said admiringly to Garion.

Its all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

When father uses the word politics hes talkingabout relations between nations. When I use the word, though, Imtalking about the various subtle ways a woman can get men to dowhat she wants them to do.

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

Why do some trees stay green while others change their color?”“Certain trees need to show off, dear. I’m sure that my big brother could explain why it happens. Dahlaine loves to explain things, and he can be very tedious about it. I prefer simpler answers. The trees are sad because summer’s almost over.

It’s different, Sorgan’s younger cousin Torl declared, gesturing at the glorious sunset late that afternoon. It’s pretty enough, I suppose, but it’s not too much like the sunsets out at sea. Mountains seem to do peculiar things to the sky.It’s the clouds, Captain Torl, Keselo explained. Most of the time, I’d imagine, the clouds out over the sea sort of plod along from here to there. When they come to mountains, though, they have to climb up one side and then slide down the other. That sort of scrambles them, so they’re thicker in some places and thinner in others. That’s why we see so many different shades of red in a mountain sunset.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Were living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, Im told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again. I think that if I had my choice, Id prefer one of those quiet centuries, Garion said glumly. Oh, no, Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. Nows the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Any time theres something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me. --Garion

It’s common knowledge that the church is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

You wont be able to do it wrong, Durnik--any more than youd be able to lie or cheat or steal. Its built into you to do it right, so dont worry about it.Thats all very well for you to say, Mistress, Pol, he replied, but if you dont mind, I will worry about it just a bit--privately of course.

His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that the birds themselves would come to him to hear what he had to say; and when when he imitated the howl of a wolf, the sound could raise the hair on the backs of his listeners necks and strike a chill into their hearts like the depths of a Drasnian winter. He could make the sound of rain and of wind and even, most miraculously, the sound of snow falling.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

As long as I know that my motives are good, Im Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.“Not if I can avoid it, no.