David Eddings Quotes

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 betw...

Could penetrate this palace, Prince Kheldar? King Anheg challenged.I already have, your Majesty, Silk said modestly, a dozen times or more.Anheg looked at Rhodar with one raised eyebrow.Rhodar coughe...

Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight? Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe...

Exaggerating? Silk sounded shocked. You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. Of course. They lie all the time. They're very good at it. For a moment Silk looked ou...

The Hierarch of Rak Urga drew himself up. This is not a request, Urgit. I’m not asking you.Good. Because I’m not going.I command you to go.I don’t think so.Do you realize to whom you’re talking?Perfec...

I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to...

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

Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them.You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear.Won't that ma...

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous.Who made up that rule?It's a known fact...

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

Now there’s something for you to think about. If you don’t know that you can’t do something, isn’t there a remote possibility that you’ll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law...

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

What happened to your foot?I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was te...

I can't abide snakes.I don't even think of her as a snake.Ce'Nedra, he said patiently, she's long and skinny, she wriggles, she doesn't have any arms or legs, and she's poisonous. By definition, she's...

You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has...Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talki...

Misty Sendaria, Silk said ironically. Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doe...

The jeers that had risen as Barak’s and Greldik’s ships had been manoeuvred onto their wheeled carriages turned rather quickly into angry mutterings as the carriages, pulled by teams of Algar horses,...

There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling us the real truth about what really happened, but if...

Your extensive travels must have been fatiguing, Zakath said in that same flat tone, particularly for the ladies. I'll see to it that your return journey to Mal Zeth is made in easy stages. Your Majes...