Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Often you don’t know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

— Robert Jordan

52. “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it?”

— Robert Jordan

53. “Time to toss the dice.”

— Robert Jordan

54. “If you can’t hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.”

— Robert Jordan

55. “The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.”

— Robert Jordan

56. “Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.”

— Robert Jordan

57. “I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.”

— Robert Jordan

58. “Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.”

— Robert Jordan

59. “A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

— Robert Jordan

60. “It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”

— Robert Jordan

61. “Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.”

— Robert Jordan

62. “Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”

— Robert Jordan

63. “Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There’s always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn’t a balance.”

— Robert Jordan

64. “A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”

— Robert Jordan

65. “All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

— Robert Jordan

66. “The fox often offers the duck its pond.”

— Robert Jordan

67. “Once you decide to gut a fish, there’s no use waiting till it rots.”

— Robert Jordan

68. “If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you’re good.”

— Robert Jordan

69. “Better to face the bear than run from it.”

— Robert Jordan

70. “Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn’t looking, my Lord Dragon.”

— Robert Jordan

71. “This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”

— Robert Jordan

72. “A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

— Robert Jordan

73. “Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.”

— Robert Jordan

74. “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”

— Robert Jordan

75. “No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

— Robert Jordan

76. “Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.”

— Robert Jordan

77. “If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world’s ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he’s done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon.”

— Robert Jordan

78. “If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.”

— Robert Jordan

79. “My name is Nynaeve ti al’Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World’s End toward Tarwin’s Gap, toward Tarmon Gai’don. Will he ride alone?”

— Robert Jordan

80. “The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”

— Robert Jordan

81. “A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair.”

— Robert Jordan

82. “Stories have power. Gleemen’s tales, and bards’ epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.”

— Robert Jordan

83. “The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”

— Robert Jordan

84. “On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying.”

— Robert Jordan

85. “The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”

— Robert Jordan

86. “A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.”

— Robert Jordan

87. “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

— Robert Jordan

88. “Should and would build no bridges. -Lini.”

— Robert Jordan

89. “Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.”

— Robert Jordan

90. “Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn’t break you when you fell. That’s the important part.”

— Robert Jordan

91. “Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.”

— Robert Jordan

92. “Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

— Robert Jordan

93. “My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. – Egwene, speaking to Elayne.”

— Robert Jordan

94. “Any day you wake up, maybe you die.”

— Robert Jordan

95. “Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”

— Robert Jordan

96. “Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.”

— Robert Jordan

97. “Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.”

— Robert Jordan

98. “When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.”

— Robert Jordan

99. “Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.”

— Robert Jordan

100. “Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”

— Robert Jordan