Honorverse favorite one-liners

And, bless him, but the man is a geek of truly Forakerian proportions.

as per Herlander Simoes, ART.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Eloise. I’ve discovered that arranging my son’s wedding is just a little more complicated than arranging interstellar treaties with lifelong enemies.”

--Queen Elizabeth III, A Rising Thunder

roseandheather wrote:

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Eloise. I’ve discovered that arranging my son’s wedding is just a little more complicated than arranging interstellar treaties with lifelong enemies.”

--Queen Elizabeth III, A Rising Thunder

I know that they are just people, but to me it's counter-intuitive that Eloise and Elizabeth has such a healthy sense of humor.

“I won’t say the devil is beyond blackening,” she continued, “but I will say that anyone who looks at Mesa with an open mind has to admit the entire star system, not just Manpower, has never given a single, solitary damn what the rest of ‘the entire explored galaxy’ thinks of it.”

Monsignor Davidson, ART

"She gazed at them, a master swordsmith contemplating the burnished brightness of her new forged blades, searching for hidden flaws under the glittering sharpness, wondering if their whetted steel was equal to the hurricane of combat which awaited them even as she prepared their final tempering."
The academy commandant Vice Admiral Dame Beatrice McDermott thinks this at the Academy graduation in Shadow of Saganami

"I believe Abraham, to use Hamish’s delightful phrase, is about ready to rip someone a new anal orifice,” Emily observed.
“Odd,” Honor said, “I don’t seem to recall his using those two words.”
“That’s because he doesn’t,” Emily replied with a smile, then elevated her nose with a sniff. “I, on the other hand, am far more genteel than he is.”
“That’s one way to describe it.”
“Hush!” Emily smacked Honor on the head with her working hand. “I want to see if Rosalinda has a stroke on system-wide HD.”
“You wish,” Honor muttered.

Emily smacked Honor on the head!
Smacked...Honor...on the head!!
Ah, such tender moments.

In my mind's eye, on NCIS, I'm seeing Gibbs slapping Tony in the back of the head.

cthia wrote:
Emily smacked Honor on the head!
Smacked...Honor...on the head!!
Ah, such tender moments.

In my mind's eye, on NCIS, I'm seeing Gibbs slapping Tony in the back of the head.

Yes, I picture the same thing when I read about Emily smacking either of her spouses upside the head!

From Elizabeth's speech in MoH:

But I also promise you this one more thing. I promise you victory. For seventy-plus T-years, the Star Empire has lived under sentence of death, yet we're still here. And we will still be here when the smoke finally clears.

Gotta love a rousing speech promising victory.

Amaroq wrote:From Elizabeth's speech in MoH:

But I also promise you this one more thing. I promise you victory. For seventy-plus T-years, the Star Empire has lived under sentence of death, yet we're still here. And we will still be here when the smoke finally clears.

Gotta love a rousing speech promising victory.

i'm not crying there's just a novel in my eye

" What kind of wuss Marine needs a butter knife to take one miserable bunker?" Gutierrez demanded "that's why god gave us teeth and fingernails."
Mateo Gutierrez says this to Abigail Hearns in Shadow of Saganami

roseandheather wrote:

Amaroq wrote:From Elizabeth's speech in MoH:

"But I also promise you this one more thing. I promise you victory. For seventy-plus T-years, the Star Empire has lived under sentence of death, yet we're still here. And we will still be here when the smoke finally clears."

Gotta love a rousing speech promising victory.

i'm not crying there's just a novel in my eye

I always try to picture it being delivered in a defiant, Winston Churcwellian "we will fight on the beaches..." type way. Or is that just me?