Stephen Brooke > Stephen's Quotes

“Too much imagination is dangerous in kings.”
― Stephen Brooke, Hero from the Sea

“Only a fool wagers with his master.”
― Stephen Brooke, The Song of the Sword

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!”
― George MacDonald, Lilith

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.”
― Carl Sandburg

“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself”
― Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is”
― James Branch Cabell

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
― Graham Greene

“I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.”
― Harriette Wilson, Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age

“You should always trust a man...just as far as you must.”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“She left my world spinning
like windmills
on the plains of la Mancha.”
― Stephen Brooke, Pieces of the Moon

“The best diplomacy comes on the blade of a sword.”
― Stephen Brooke, The Shadow of Asak

“If things didn’t break, there would be no potters.”
― Stephen Brooke, The Sign of the Arrow

“It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret — according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes — no one living knows more of mine than I. (La of Opar)”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“Depending on what happens most times has often gotten people into trouble.”
― Stephen Brooke, The Song of the Sword

“Epics ever favor the winner”
― Stephen Brooke, God of Rain

“Bohasuk was the sort who could not be convinced of anything he did not already believe.”
― Stephen Brooke, God of Rain

“Lives do not wrap themselves up as neatly as the epics of the storytellers.”
― Stephen Brooke, God of Rain

“But democracy is not really the people, is it?” she asked. “It is the majority of the people. So it is still one group telling everyone else what to do.”
― Stephen Brooke, The Dictator's Children