Priest of Lies Quotes

“Kneeling in the temple doesn’t make you godly any more than standing in a stable makes you a horse, to my mind.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“No, I wasn’t supposed to go into the kitchen, that wouldn’t have been seemly. Yes, of course I could have a drink, but that meant ringing a bell that summoned a footman who sent a houseboy to the kitchen to pester an undercook to draw me a mug of beer from the barrel and give it to him to bring back to the footman to give to me, when I would quite happily have just gone and got the fucking thing myself.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“You didn’t hit women, not unless they were armed and they were trying to kill you. You didn’t hit whores, and you most definitely didn’t hit your own fucking wife. Anyone who needed that explained to him wasn’t someone I knew how to talk to in a civil fashion.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“Truth be told, I don’t know,” I said. “They say in the temple that sometimes a man has to balance two evils in his hands, and choose the lighter one.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“When even sappers fear a man, I had thought at the time, that man is to be feared indeed.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“Perhaps law and order is just another way of saying tyranny and oppression, but I wouldn’t know. That was a philosophical question, and I couldn’t give a fuck about philosophy.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“I had my cold devil to keep me company, and that was enough.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“Aye well, it seems to me that a man who’s cruel in one way is likely to be cruel in others.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies

“Perhaps this sort of nonsense was why nobles always seemed to be angry about something.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Lies