# The Lies of Locke Lamora

- Author: [Scott Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch.md)
- Quotes: 16
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora

## Quotes

> You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/you-cant-help.md)

> Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it’s impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/hard-lessons-were.md)

> “Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. “The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you’re a nag. Give it at seventy and you’re a sage.”

p. 433 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/advice-chuckled-dona.md)

> I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?

p. 636 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/i-have-always.md)

> Time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.

p. 392 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/times-a-river.md)

> In time, you’ll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty’s sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.

p. 715 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/in-time-youll.md)

> “This entire situation is insane.” Jean slammed his book shut in disgust.
>
> “It was insane before; now it’s become malicious.”

p. 330 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/this-entire-situation.md)

> I’m sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.

p. 457 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/im-sure-we-can.md)

> “‘Commonly thought,’ you say? Many things are commonly thought, but perhaps not commonly thought all the way through.”

p. 435 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/commonly-thought-you.md)

> “Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
>
> “A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.”

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/liquor-does-this.md)

> When you’re a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.

p. 414 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/when-youre-a-priest.md)

> I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.

p. 716 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/i-cant-live.md)

> Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn’t it?

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/enlightenment-when-it-comes.md)

> It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

p. 567 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/it-was-strange.md)

> Our patron has always sort of danced upon the notion that austerity and piety go hand in hand; down here, we show our appreciation for things by appreciating, if you get me.

p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/our-patron-has.md)

> There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/theres-no-freedom.md)