An honor is not diminished for being shared.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: One liners, Honor
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Weapon, One liners
My home is not a place, it is people.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Home, One liners
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet…where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That’s a very good damn question!
—Lois McMaster Bujold
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Civilization
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Victory
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