Gentlemen Bastards Quotes

#1. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F

George Lakoff

#2. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#3. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Scott Lynch

#4. If your Nerve, deny you
Go above your Nerve

Emily Dickinson

#5. He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.

Robin Hardy

#6. 'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.

Johnathon Schaech

#7. That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.

Scott Lynch

#8. I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

Andrew Wyeth

#9. Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Scott Lynch

#10. A friend helps you move; a real friend helps you move a body.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. Kill first and then say, Gosh, were you actually good? My duh!

Kresley Cole

#12. If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them."
"If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo.
"And me," said Conte
"Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.

Scott Lynch

#13. I'm not gong to kill you, said Locke
I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.

Scott Lynch

#14. I think 'Slumdog' was probably the first big film that happened in India, but even that seemed like a one-off thing.

Tena Desae

#15. The sins of the fathers are to be born by their children's children's children? What sort of justice is that? This goes against half a millennium's worth of Western jurisprudence.

Peter Boghossian

#16. Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

Scott Lynch

#17. Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.

Queen Latifah

#18. I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here ... asshole.
Here ... until ... Jean gets back.

Scott Lynch

#19. I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.

Scott Lynch