543 quotes
Well, good going with your captaincy. I know you worked for it, even though you pretend not to.
Memory (1996)
The joys of command — well, you know. You taught them to me. One part glory to ten parts shoveling manure.
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
Cetaganda (1996)
Check your assumptions, Cordelia thought to herself in amusement. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.
Barrayar (1991)
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Memory (1996)
Love was long gone, in her. She got by on a starvation diet of loyalty these days.
Komarr (1998)
What the hell was HQ thinking of? It seemed extraordinarily obtuse even for them.
Brothers in Arms (1989)
He didn’t exactly have a plan, yet. More of a stab in the dark. He still wasn’t sure what his blade would connect with…
Cryoburn (2010)
Miles was plenty expressive too, in his own unreliable way. Half of it was horseshit, but you were never sure which half.
A Civil Campaign (1999)
This war nonsense was a great psychological education. That chronometer had to be wrong. Surely it had been a year, and not an hour…
Shards of Honor (1986)
“You have the instincts of a gentleman, Ivan,” said Miles, absorbed in breaking into the coded files. “How did you ever get into security?
Brothers in Arms (1989)
Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were.
Ethan of Athos (1986)
The line of logic trailed off in confusion; he turned his thoughts impatiently from it. Mental wheel-spinning, as unproductive as philosophy class in college.
Falling Free (1988)
When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a...future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to be a subhuman species anyway.
The Vor Game (1990)
Oswin was the most perfect servant of the Father, always so concerned for figuring out the exact rules and getting himself on the right side of them. Or them on the left side of him.
The Hallowed Hunt (2005)
Yes, well…actual combat…is a lot stupider than I’d imagined. If two groups can cooperate to the incredible extent it takes to meet in battle, why not put in a tenth that effort to talk?
The Vor Game (1990)
I propose a treaty. You can have all the rest of the women in the universe. I just want this one.
A Civil Campaign (1999)
“Is that going to be a problem?” said Ivan.
“Definitely. I just don’t know what kind, yet. Or whose.”
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012)
A contractor, early? Really? Already your tale begins to resemble some drunken hallucination.
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016)
I can’t quit, once I’ve started. I’ve been told I’m pathologically persistent. I can’t quit.
The Borders of Infinity (1987)