Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.”

— Robert Jordan

352. “And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.”

— Robert Jordan

353. “Strangers and a gleeman, fireworks and a peddler. It was going to be the best Bel Tine ever.”

— Robert Jordan

354. “Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.”

— Robert Jordan

355. “I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.”

— Robert Jordan

356. “Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.”

— Robert Jordan

357. “But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman’s head just because she had a smile on her face.”

— Robert Jordan

358. “May Your Swords Stay Sharp!” – Lan Pendragon.”

— Robert Jordan

359. “Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.”

— Robert Jordan

360. “Mia dovienya nesodhin soende.”

— Robert Jordan

361. “But it was an ending.”

— Robert Jordan

362. “Yamada might be a good general – Mat did not know – but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.”

— Robert Jordan

363. “A man’s dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”

— Robert Jordan

364. “Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

— Robert Jordan

365. “Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions.”

— Robert Jordan

366. “At the south end of the inn, away from the stream, stretched the remains of a much larger stone foundation, once part of the inn – or so it was said. A huge oak grew in the middle of it now, with a bole thirty paces around and spreading branches as thick as a man. In the summer, Bran al’Vere set tables and benches under those branches, shady with leaves then, where people could enjoy a cup and a cooling breeze while they talked or perhaps set out a board for a game of stones.”

— Robert Jordan

367. “Keep fighting, you daughters and sons of goats!” Birgitte yelled, loosing arrows at the mercenaries. “I might be dead, but I’m still your bloody commander, and you will obey orders!”

— Robert Jordan

368. “The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.”

— Robert Jordan

369. “Someone had to record this. He couldn’t spend the entire time worrying about her. So, he searched his mind for the right words to describe what he was seeing. He set aside words like “epic” and “momentous.” They were nearly worn out with overuse.”

— Robert Jordan

370. “Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.”

— Robert Jordan

371. “A man should never give promises in bed.”

— Robert Jordan

372. “Why, that’s like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne.”

— Robert Jordan

373. “Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.”

— Robert Jordan

374. “They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.”

— Robert Jordan

375. “The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

— Robert Jordan

376. “You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.”

— Robert Jordan

377. “A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you’re dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn’t you say?”

— Robert Jordan

378. “It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn’t all right to let them make you like they are.”

— Robert Jordan

379. “Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who’s too easily biddable.”

— Robert Jordan

380. “What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.”

— Robert Jordan

381. “You are quite beautiful, child. Perhaps you should beware of Perrin. I never see him but in the company of beautiful girls.” Faile gave Perrin a flat, considering look, then tried to gloss it over quickly.”

— Robert Jordan

382. “The fall of the Stone will be one of the major proofs that the Dragon has been reborn. May the Stone stand till I am dust.”

— Robert Jordan

383. “Nothing remained to be defended now, only a nation to avenge, and he had been trained to that from his first step. With his mother’s gift at his throat and his father’s sword in his hand, with the ring branded on his heart, he had fought from his sixteenth nameday to avenge Malkier. But never had he led men into the Blight. Bukama had ridden with him, and others, but he would not lead men there. That war was his alone. The dead could not be returned to life, a land any more than a man.”

— Robert Jordan

384. “You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.”

— Robert Jordan

385. “Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.”

— Robert Jordan

386. “Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”

— Robert Jordan

387. “A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”

— Robert Jordan

388. “You read too much and understand too little.”

— Robert Jordan

389. “The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.”

— Robert Jordan

390. “The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.”

— Robert Jordan

391. “I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-...”

— Robert Jordan

392. “A pattern that is all one color is no pattern.”

— Robert Jordan

393. “Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.”

— Robert Jordan

394. “The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”

— Robert Jordan

395. “In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.”

— Robert Jordan

396. “Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.”

— Robert Jordan

397. “Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car’a’carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

— Robert Jordan

398. “Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.”

— Robert Jordan

399. “The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.”

— Robert Jordan

400. “Two Rivers, craftsmen were revered. And their marksmen were the best the world knew. An elite group of Two Rivers men, armed with the new firing sticks men were calling rifles, served with the Aiel in their peacekeeping campaigns in Shara. It was the only place war was known in.”

— Robert Jordan