Robin Hobb: Trending quotes

Robin Hobb trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Robin Hobb: 152 quotes5 likes

“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”

Robin Hobb

“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.”

Robin Hobb

Source: Golden Fool

“Wolves have no kings.”

Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin

“But a living is not a life.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Variant: It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic

Source: Ship of Magic

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Destiny

Source: Ship of Destiny

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic

Source: Ship of Magic

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

Robin Hobb

Source: Golden Fool

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”

Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin