His outburst that morning had been directed almost more at himself than at Aunt Pol. He had called her a monster, but it was the monster within himself he hated. The dreadful catalogue of what she had suffered over uncounted years for him and the passion with which she had spoken – evidence of the pain his words had caused her – twisted searingly in his mind. He was ashamed, so ashamed that he could not even bear to look into the faces of his friends.

— David Eddings

David Eddings Quotes

Wise are you, indeed,” the fox said, “to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

— David Eddings

Lammer stared at the chunk of bread in his hands, trembling violently. “I’ll follow you, my lady,” he declared in a quavering voice. “I’ve eaten my shoes and lived on boiled grass and tree roots.” His fists closed about the chunk of bread as if he were afraid someone might take it away from him. “I’ll follow you to the end of the world and back for this.” And he began to eat, tearing at the bread with his teeth.

— David Eddings

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn’t say anything.

— David Eddings

As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I’m seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.

— David Eddings

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.

— David Eddings

By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.

— David Eddings

Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn’t be embellished so much.

— David Eddings

Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there’s no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?

— David Eddings

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.

— David Eddings

Kroldor’s men are going to blame him for the way things turned out,’ Hettar observed. ‘I know. But then, that’s one of the hazards of leadership.

— David Eddings

If you don’t have calluses on your soul, writing isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

— David Eddings

But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.

— David Eddings

Why not hold an election?’ I asked them. ‘I’ve never had that much faith in elections,’ Ran Horb said dubiously. ‘An election’s nothing more than a popularity contest, and popularity’s hardly a measure of any kind of administrative ability.

— David Eddings

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 belly-ache?’ That’s the major argument against any kind of absolutism.

— David Eddings

There’s a whole catalogue of nasty little emotions curdling in the human spirit, and anything the least bit out of the ordinary raises the possibility of retribution.

— David Eddings

A prudent man doesn’t give either a priest or a woman the opportunity to scold him in public.

— David Eddings

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.

— David Eddings

Don’t explain it to me, please,” Anheg said. “As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that’s all that’s really important.

— David Eddings

Any fool can raise an army, but you start running into trouble around suppertime.

— David Eddings

What you have to decide is whether you should do something, not whether you can do it.

— David Eddings
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