# The Dirdir

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir

## Quotes

> Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor.

p. 300

> They consider garrulity a crime against nature.

p. 315

> There is no reason why the project should not go easily and smoothly except for the innate perversity of circumstances.

p. 345

> “Do you deny the charges?”
>
> “I neither confirm nor deny them; they are ridiculous.”

p. 408

> Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.

p. 359