# The Face

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face

## Quotes

> For many years my nerves were like electric wires. Then I discovered the first axiom of human accord: I accept each person on his own terms. I keep a close tongue in my head; I offer opinions only when so solicited. What a remarkable change! Dissension vanishes, novel facts emerge, digestion flows like a wide river.

p. 75

> The seconds marched past, traversing that mysterious boundary which separates future from past.

p. 145

> “What are you doing here?”
>
> “I’m looking at you, and grateful for the opportunity.”

p. 124

> My own concepts in this regard are easy and clear, and I am sure that the word “simplistic” will be used by my critics. These folk are callow and turgid of intellect; I am reassured by their howls and yelps.

p. 172

> I am a legalist and a financial expert, I admit as much; but my disregard for the law goes no further.

p. 56

> “May I inquire as to your motives?”
>
> “Why do you trouble to ask? You would believe nothing told you.”

p. 166

> Remember, not all lawyers are fools!

p. 39

> If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.

p. 17

> My wealth is my shelf of books!

p. 173

> I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself.

p. 12