David Weber Quotes

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

...there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.