The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two Quotes

“Yes, he remembered it well now: he had taken them all—and at the simple game of sixes and sevens, where the banker wins if he matches the number of coins the player holds in his fist; those Eight-City fools didn’t realize they tried to make their fists big when they held six golden coins and tightened them when they held seven. Yes,”
― Fritz Leiber, The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two: Swords Against Wizardry, The Swords of Lankhmar, and Swords and Ice Magic

“There had been raised eyebrows at these arrangements from the rather strait-laced Islers, which the four principals had handled by firmly overlooking them.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two: Swords Against Wizardry, The Swords of Lankhmar, and Swords and Ice Magic

“he must first be true to his god’s nature: which is, to hear what we say and hold us to it, to speak truth to man about what’s going on in distant places, and to prophecy honestly—though he may try to trick us with words if we don’t listen to him very carefully.”
― Fritz Leiber, The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two: Swords Against Wizardry, The Swords of Lankhmar, and Swords and Ice Magic