Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
Christopher Paolini
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Paolini
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
LA
California
Christopher James Paolini
Fool
Honest
Lying
Better
Sworn
Scholar
Honesty
More quotes by Christopher Paolini
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
Christopher Paolini
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
Christopher Paolini
I'm healthy as an ox. And you? To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
Christopher Paolini
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.
Christopher Paolini
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
Christopher Paolini
m doing my best no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears
Christopher Paolini
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
Christopher Paolini
It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
Christopher Paolini
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.
Christopher Paolini
If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon
Christopher Paolini
The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.
Christopher Paolini
Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your heart may the stars watch over you)
Christopher Paolini
If he fancied her anymore, Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself. Saphira! Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.
Christopher Paolini
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
Christopher Paolini
It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.
Christopher Paolini
Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him
Christopher Paolini
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
Christopher Paolini
If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm
Christopher Paolini
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
Christopher Paolini
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.
Christopher Paolini