The Tamuli Omnibus Quotes

“laurels”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy

“Scholars pick up a great deal of information, and governments tend to ignore their findings – until it’s too late.”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy

“It had the desired effect, Sparhawk. If that conceited young ass had patronised me about one more time, I’d have strangled him. Two hundred some odd verses in an ode to the colour blue? What a donkey!”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy

“Ambitious people need followers, and the best way to get people to follow you is to promise them that you’re going to correct everything that’s wrong with the world. The promises are all very stirring, but only babies expect leaders to actually keep them.”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy

“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven’t treated very well. That’s much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were sub-human monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn’t nearly as black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt. We do like to keep a good opinion of ourselves, don’t we?”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy