I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.
It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.
[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'. . . 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now. ' 'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg. 268]
But. . . what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders. " Horace and Gilan
You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.
All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.