All Quotes

"Since you left us, you've been a stone rolling downhill. Now you must aim this remarkable momentum. It is past time for the balance to shift."

""The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee." -The Hammer Book of Tenets"

""Greed shall be your undoing, poor Garrett."-Oracle Statue"

"I've always equated "feelings" with "getting caught"...they both get in the way of my money. Unfortunately not everyone is as committed to their work as I am."

"I make it a policy never to take a job so sentimental, but the Rumford manor could be a lucrative opportunity for a man like me. It would also mean that Basso would owe me a favour...And in this line of work, you can never have too many of those."

"Huh! This proves it...going legit is more trouble than it's worth...."

"Huh! Wasn't that long ago that I was planning on my retirement...now the only thing that's getting retired is my standards."

"Hagen is Sheriff Truart's number two man and has no doubt made life difficult for someone he shouldn't have."

"I realize that breaking into Shoalsgate is like looking down a Burrick's mouth with a lit match, but it would pay me enough to lay low for a while. And it doesn't hurt to be giving the police some dirty laundry to deal with either. Besides, with my luck if I don't take this job I could end up in there anyway."

"The smell of ale and smoke from the place wasn't enough to cover up the stench of an ambush. A couple of Watch officers were there waiting for me. Judging by the look on Sunny's face, I'd say he sold me out."

"They didn't seem interested in bringing me in either. The bluecoats were looking for swift justice. Fortunately, I always have an ace up my sleeve."

"Iron trees? Not in my part of town."

"I know they're trying to manipulate me, but keepers never alter the truth... just keep it in the shadows."

"Looks like I have something useful to learn from a seminary for a change."

"I'd rather not tread where the dead sleep."

"This situation does have one advantage... things can't get any worse. Who could hire someone like the sheriff to kill me?"

"I'm not surprised that the Mechanists are not the saints they claim to be, no one in this city is."

"It didn't take much to learn that the Mechanists do all their banking with First City Bank and Trust, one of the wealthiest establishments in town, catering to the needs of the city's upper crust."

"No doubt the bank is well protected by Mechanist security machines, in addition to the usual guard contingent. Risky... but you know, I've always wanted a good enough excuse to break into First City Bank and Trust. And I always thought I'd be taking the risk, just for the money."

"It's time for a face to face chat with my old friend Sheriff Truart. Work out our differences, show him the little piece of evidence I lifted from the Mechanists. I'm sure he'll appreciate the consequences if this were to be made public. Truart was acting for somebody when his cronies ambushed me back at the Crippled Burrick inn... I bet he'll be happy to tell me who that was."

"I don't know what's going on, and I don't like that."

"If I believed in it, now it would be a good time for me to wish for luck."

"Garrett: "Angelwatch? Is this how our arrangement is gonna work, you coming up with ways for me to get myself killed?" Victoria: "Is this really Garrett the Master Thief I hear talking? If danger is going to be a problem for you, then..." Garrett: "Just-- give me the details.""

"Garrett: "So this is the city of the future? I prefer my Tenement instead.""

"Victoria: "Our guest Cavador just spilled his guts." Garrett: "Not literally?" Victoria: "That wasn't necessary."

"But lo, how easily evil is felled, when the righteous hold the mace! Thou art transparent to me, Garrett, even now I can see thou seeking to stop me, but there is naught you can do."

"I know not why you oppose me. In one act, I will end all human suffering, and clear the path for the Builder to walk again on earth, history will move forward! My tireless children will build in his name, creating advancements beyond our understanding. Now, it is the dark time before the days of light! Why dost thou oppose me?"

"Soon all will be blessed with the breath of the Builder, the Necrotic Mutox that I created. And all the souls... the rich that spurned me, the City Watch that betrayed me, the loathsome pagans, the mindless commoners, even the loyal followers of Karras, all will receive the blessing... and the cleansing. But will they lift up their arms and praise Karras, as the vapours make them pure? Nay! They will wail, and scream, most ungrateful!"

"What hast thou... built, Garrett? When the time comes to review thy life, with the Master Builder afore thee, and the question is asked: what hast thou built, what will thee say, poor Garrett? For thou art a man of... destruction, not construction. Tis the biggest sin of all. Build thyself today a good house, that would please Him much!"

"And Karras said, ‘Lay down thy hammer, friends, 'tis yesteryear's trappings.' And so we laid them down, and seeing this, Karras spoke again: ‘Now raise up thy mace, The Builder shall fuel thee...and all the followers of Karras.'"

""Reliance upon others Is weakness for the strong But strength for the weak. Wisdom and balance lie in knowing your own nature over time." -Chronicle of the Metal Age"

""The man who learns only what Others know is as ignorant as if he Learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge Are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age"

""Strike Hot Iron And Call Forth Sparks Strike A Man And Call Forth Fury To Shape Man Or Metal To Thy Will Thou Must Strike With Force" -Collected Sermons of Karras"

""Sings We A Dances Of Wolfs, Who Smells Fear And Slays The Coward. Sings We A Dances Of Mans, Who Smells Gold And Slays His Brother." -Pagan Saying"

""Bricky Roads They Trappers Grass, Stoney Walls They Trappers Wind, Iron Stove It Trappers Fire. Trappers Is We By The Works Of Hands, And Forgets Us We Were Ever Free." -Inked Grass Scroll"

""To Manipulate A Man Is A Careful Project. Too Light A Hand, And He Follows His Own Whim; Too Heavy A Hand, And He Will Turn On You." -Chronicle of the Metal Age"

""He Who Keeps His Work In Disorder Gives Home To Chaos. Let Him Be Struck With Stone And Iron To Forge Away His Flaws." -Collected Sermons of Karras"

""Saws We Them Man O' Moons Faces, Rounds O' Glow Brights n Them Summer Night Sky, Saids Them To Us That Winter Comes Earlies, Summer Is Gone, And The Harvest Is Fled." -From A Pagan Song"

""The Builder Has Gifted Thee With The Greatest Of All Treasures - The Future! But Thine Own Will Forges The Key That Opens The Lock." -Karras, Private Correspondence"

""Even With All We Had Learned, Some Events Were To Prove More Complex Than We Had Predicted. The Most Unlikely Of Alliances Was Also The Most Effective." -Chronicle of the Metal Age"

""Vigilance is our shield That protects us from the squalid past Knowledge is our weapon With which we carve our path To an enlightened future." -Hammerite Chant"

""Calls The Serpents To The Heels Of My Foes! Calls The Ravens To Pecks Their Eyes! Calls The Jackals, Carry Thems Away Their Children To Gnaw Bones In The Night!" -Pagan Curse"

""When We Looked At The Relics Of The Precursors, We Saw The Heights Civilization Can Attain. When We Looked At Their Ruins, We Marked The Danger Of That Height." -Keeper Annals"

""There Are Those To Whom Knowledge Is A Shield, And Those To Whom It Is A Weapon. Neither View Is Balanced, But One Is Less Unwise." -Keeper Annals"

"Benny: Ha! So what if I am, huh? Anyways, I work better when I'm drunk. It makes me fearless! If I see a bad guy, I'll just point my sword at him. And saaaaaay "HEY! Bad guy! You're not s'pposed to be here! Go home or I'll stick you with my sword...'til you go...'Ouch I'm dead!' Ahahahah (hic) See? Ain't no one gonna be messin with old Benny.""

"He was digging in his garden–digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death–and he drove in his spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. A convincing thunder rumbled through the words."

"He planted his foot on his spade and stamped it fiercely into the tough ground. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Thunder again; words that proclaimed themselves true–truer somehow than truth itself. And yet that same Gloucester had called them ever-gentle gods. Besides, thy best of rest is sleep and that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st thy death which is no more. No more than sleep. Sleep. Perchance to dream. His spade struck against a stone; he stooped to pick it up. For in that sleep of death, what dreams? …"

"A dystopia fast becoming more likely than 1984. Also more fun, but creepy. Thought provoking and on college reading lists."

"Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, not scientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point. Yet the knee-jerk response of "It's Brave New World!" to any blueprint for chemically-driven happiness has delayed research into paradise-engineering for all sentient life."

"In the happy days of Queen Victoria men used to write Utopias to suggest the likelihood of even greater happiness in the future. In the unhappy days in which it is our lot to live, Utopias are written in order to make us still more unhappy. Mr. Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, has shown his usual masterly skill in producing this result upon the reader, for he has undertaken to make us sad by the contemplation of a world without sadness."