Top 160 Janet Morris Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.”

— Janet Morris

2. “We know. We’ve seen it all before.”

— Janet Morris

3. “Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.”

— Janet Morris

4. “It’s in the god’s hands.”

— Janet Morris

5. “Let fools believe what fools believe.”

— Janet Morris

6. “Wars don’t bring lasting peace, only lasting death.”

— Janet Morris

7. “Look around you. It’s an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what’s worth fighting for.”

— Janet Morris

8. “Don’t blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.”

— Janet Morris

9. “Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you’d left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.”

— Janet Morris

10. “If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?”

— Janet Morris

11. “The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.”

— Janet Morris

12. “The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.”

— Janet Morris

13. “Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.”

— Janet Morris

14. “Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.”

— Janet Morris

15. “Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.”

— Janet Morris

16. “I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?”

— Janet Morris

17. “Be careful what you pray for.”

— Janet Morris

18. “This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.”

— Janet Morris

19. “No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.”

— Janet Morris

20. “There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven’t the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don’t betray: they merely disappoint.”

— Janet Morris

21. “Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.”

— Janet Morris

22. “The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.”

— Janet Morris

23. “There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.”

— Janet Morris

24. “Survival has its own etiquette.”

— Janet Morris

25. “Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We’ll find this thing – and kill it.”

— Janet Morris

26. “You’re talent, and we’re the talent scouts.”

— Janet Morris

27. “Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.”

— Janet Morris

28. “Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.”

— Janet Morris

29. “But we’re dying here.”

— Janet Morris

30. “I’m just a weapon of the god.”

— Janet Morris

31. “Painful things are quickly forgotten.”

— Janet Morris

32. “One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.”

— Janet Morris

33. “Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.”

— Janet Morris

34. “Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.”

— Janet Morris

35. “When the balance is restored, people get hurt.”

— Janet Morris

36. “Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.”

— Janet Morris

37. “Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. “Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be.””

— Janet Morris

38. “Loyalty must be forged – to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk – it can’t be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.”

— Janet Morris

39. “For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.”

— Janet Morris

40. “Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.”

— Janet Morris

41. “Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.”

— Janet Morris

42. “Gods have bloody hands.”

— Janet Morris

43. “Order is its own reward.”

— Janet Morris

44. “It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.”

— Janet Morris

45. “There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.”

— Janet Morris

46. “The sun is new every day.”

— Janet Morris

47. “One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. – Tempus.”

— Janet Morris

48. “So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.”

— Janet Morris

49. “Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.”

— Janet Morris

50. “There are stranger things here than Thebans know about...”

— Janet Morris