# Quote — Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

> 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.

- Author: [Scott Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch.md)
- Book: [The Lies of Locke Lamora](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/hard-lessons-were

## More from this book

> 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)

> “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)