Wot Quotes by Robert Jordan, T. E. Brown, Terry Pratchett, Nicholas Breton, Brian Jacques, Twiggy and many others.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
I will hate the man you choose because he isn’t me, and love him if he makes you smile.
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first.
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Why, that’s like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers ‘like wot I do.
Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
Much ado there was, God wot;
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, “Never man was trewe;”
He sayes, “None was false to you.”
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, “Never man was trewe;”
He sayes, “None was false to you.”
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I’d say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.
Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin’ luvly figgers and me stayin’ flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
Better to face the bear than run from it.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it?
When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back.
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
