# House of Chains

- Author: [Steven Erikson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/house-of-chains

## Quotes

> With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

> An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.

> But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.

> From the sun-drenched south slopes of Gris, where grow the finest grapes this world has seen. Is mine an informed opinion, you are wondering? Most assuredly so, lass, since I hold a majority interest in said vineyards —

> The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

> Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

> Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

> "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself."
>
> "With words."