Jim Butcher

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.