Top 100 David Eddings Quotes
#1. He can come up with the most exotic things I've ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.
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#2. I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia
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#3. The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.
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#4. A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
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#5. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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#6. Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.
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#7. What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra.
"First you ought to go wash your face," Polgara told her. "Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it.
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#8. It's 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?
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#9. Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked.
"Not if I can avoid it, no.
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#10. Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
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#11. Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be.
"Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked.
" ... You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
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#12. Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.
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#13. He's nearly a man," Faldor explained to Aunt Pol, "and a man always has need of a good knife.
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#14. You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.
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#15. Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
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#16. But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
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#17. Your
ah
intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.
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#18. The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
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#19. Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there's no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?
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#20. That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
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#21. When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
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#22. The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no."
"Why?" Beldin asked bluntly.
"We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?
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#23. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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#24. Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?
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#25. Watch out for snakes,' Durnik called after him.
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#26. Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.
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#27. Most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.
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#28. For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.
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#29. When father uses the word 'politics' he's talking
about relations between nations. When I use the word, though, I'm
talking about the various subtle ways a woman can get men to do
what she wants them to do.
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#31. Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however."
"My apologies to your horse.
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#32. The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.
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#33. We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don't have to carry that threat out too often.
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#34. As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig
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#35. Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.
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#36. Only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.
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#37. As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
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#38. I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
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#39. Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
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#40. Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.
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#41. As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
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#42. I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.
I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
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#43. All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
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#44. You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll throw up again.
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#45. Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love," the queen said with a little smirk, "and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
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#46. You're a cynic," Urgit accused.
Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
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#47. No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.
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#48. Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.
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#49. But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.
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#50. We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.
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#51. I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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#52. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.
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#53. Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have.
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#54. I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before."
"You're a fortunate man," Wolf said.
"She's a great beauty," the man said admiringly.
"And has a temper to match," Wolf told him.
"I noticed that," the guard said.
"We noticed you noticing," Silk told him slyly.
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#55. Garion drew in a deep breath. "Or," he continued, "I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him."
Silk whistled, his eyes widening.
"He said that I didn't have to go alone," Garion added hopefully. "I asked him about that."
"Thanks," Belgarath said dryly.
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#56. Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
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#57. It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best.
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#58. In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.
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#59. Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.
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#60. The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.
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#61. Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.
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#62. Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
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#63. I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.
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#64. 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.
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#65. It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?
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#66. The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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#67. The table quite literally groaned under its weight of roasted game,
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#68. Torak's dead."
"Really?" Aunt Pol said. "Have you seen his grave? Have you opened the grave and seen his bones?
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#69. Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.
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#70. Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.
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#71. Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.
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#72. Then you've learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
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#73. Mad with terror, many even leaped into the deadly water of the river. 'We're not going to be able to get through that mob, Polgara,' Barak said.
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#74. 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.
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#76. When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.
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#77. Everyone's lonely, dear," she explained, drawing him close to her. "We touch other people only briefly, then we're alone again. You'll get used to it in time.
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#78. Doesn't make any sense, he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into
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#79. Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?"
"Behind us
or in front. It depends on which way you are looking.
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#80. The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk
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#81. Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.
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#82. I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.
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#83. No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God's special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners. Considering our divine origins, such disrespect is the worst form of impiety. I'm sure your Grace agrees.
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#84. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
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#85. I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
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#86. - I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.
- That went by just a little fast, Torl.
- It's terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man's foot when he's wearing boots, commander.
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#87. Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."
"Who made up that rule?"
"It's a known fact ...
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#88. 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.
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#89. Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.
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#90. Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn't be embellished so much.
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#91. I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
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#92. Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?
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#93. Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.
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#94. The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar
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#95. If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
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#96. 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.
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#97. As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood - unless he happens to bite his tongue.
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#99. The victories of the imagination involved no risks, and a confrontation with an enemy always ended satisfactorily when both sides of the conversation came from one's own daydreams.
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#100. The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.
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