# Jack Vance

- Quotes: 189
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance

## Books

- [Big Planet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/big-planet.md) — 3 quotes
- [Emphyrio](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/emphyrio.md) — 8 quotes
- [Madouc](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/madouc.md) — 15 quotes
- [Marune: Alastor 933](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/marune-alastor-933.md) — 5 quotes
- [Maske: Thaery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/maske-thaery.md) — 7 quotes
- [Night Lamp](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/night-lamp.md) — 8 quotes
- [Rhialto the Marvellous](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/rhialto-the-marvellous.md) — 10 quotes
- [The Anome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Asutra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-asutra.md) — 8 quotes
- [The Book of Dreams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-book-of-dreams.md) — 8 quotes
- [The Brave Free Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-brave-free-men.md) — 10 quotes
- [The Dirdir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Dying Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dying-earth.md) — 7 quotes
- [The Face](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face.md) — 10 quotes
- [The Green Pearl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl.md) — 22 quotes
- [The Killing Machine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-killing-machine.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Languages of Pao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-languages-of-pao.md) — 6 quotes
- [The Palace of Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-palace-of-love.md) — 11 quotes
- [The Pnume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-pnume.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Star King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king.md) — 14 quotes
- [Trullion: Alastor 2262](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262.md) — 4 quotes
- [Vandals of the Void](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/vandals-of-the-void.md) — 3 quotes
- [Wyst: Alastor 1716](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/wyst-alastor-1716.md) — 13 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Jaro, my dear, there is no mystery about violence. It is the reflexive act of brutes, boors and moral defectives.

p. 37

> I may be called upon to address the company. No one will listen, of course, which is just as well, since I have nothing to say.

p. 954

> They meant no harm, of course; they wanted only that he be like themselves, which was the prerogative of all parents.

p. 68

> He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

p. 967

> “My term of penitence is over and tomorrow I leave this dust hole and that sullen beast Arsloe behind—forever, or so I hope. I must take pains, of course, to avoid my previous faults.”
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> “What did you do?” asked Gaing. “Did you—” and he coarsely suggested an act of sexual perversion committed upon the young daughter of the Chief Magistrate.
>
> “No, nothing like that. What I did was worse. I gave voice to unpopular opinions.”

p. 223

> The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.

p. 968

> Sacerdotal, religious or priest-dominated societies are like organisms with a cancer.

p. 183

> One thing was certain: when someone searched into secret places, he often came up with things he would rather not have found.

p. 81

> Rute showed Maihac a sour smile. “You seem to lack confidence in my integrity.”
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> “You are wealthy,” said Maihac. “Your money did of the come to you because of your bonhomie.”

p. 376

> Althea cried out in dismay: “Is that what you believe?”
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> “In the absence of evidence I believe nothing,” said Dr. Fiorio.

p. 58

> “You make very narrow distinctions.”
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> “Of course! That is the nature of clear thinking.”

p. 230

> I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

p. 430