Prince of fools Quotes

“You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.”

“Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!”

“It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.”

“It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.”

“Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.”

“Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name— Baraqel. I didn’t like him much.”

“Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.”

“Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.”

“All the best secrets are told at night.”