Top 79 David Weber Quotes

#1. liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

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#2. as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

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#3. McKeon: "You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling]."
"Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as Mondragon's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them," Honor said ironically.

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#4. 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.

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#5. And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

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#6. All right, Chief Killian." She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. "That away - full military power.

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#7. Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. "In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

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#8. Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,

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#9. I see you're closer to on time than usual!

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#10. Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

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#11. But every time I told myself one lie, I had to tell another to justify the ones that came before it.

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#12. War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose.

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#13. Sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them.

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#14. Were significantly more

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#15. Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities.

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

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#17. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.

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#18. Mother's casting hungry looks at my exec again," she complained. "Not to worry," her father replied. "She looks a lot, but she's never had any reason to roam." "You're as bad as she is!

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#19. It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

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#20. If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.

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#21. Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,

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#22. The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.

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#23. Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.

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#24. If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

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#25. It wasn't his fault he'd been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.

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#26. Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

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#27. 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.

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

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#29. I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

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#30. There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.

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#31. Let's be about it, people.

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#32. Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.

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#33. My favorite's toxophilia, arousal from archery. You wouldn't believe the poses people get into. Remember: one overnight bag, that's it.

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#34. What's conquered by the sword depends on the sword to stay conquered.

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#35. Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery

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#36. I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

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#37. Parallel worlds, right?" Aston nodded. "Our sci-fi writers love 'em." "They still do back home," Ludmilla assured him.

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#38. rights, a physician with his experience and demonstrated skill should have been home in the Star Kingdom on the staff of one of the major base hospitals, or else assigned to one of the lavishly equipped hospital ships which accompanied the Fleet Train.

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#39. Fail not in this charge at your peril.

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#40. Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove.

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#41. I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

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#42. Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There

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#43. It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.

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#44. Overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. *

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#45. WAGs ... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.

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#46. They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.

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

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#48. you people's departments

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#49. We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard
skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

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#50. The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it.

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#51. Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.

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#52. They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.

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

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#54. Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them.

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#55. Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?"
"Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.

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#56. Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people ... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

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#57. All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran - or Grayson - Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was.

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#58. There are two sides to any war-game, Your Highness, and the other side is trying to win, too.

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#59. One of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants,

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#60. Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

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#61. We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

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#62. She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness with a gun, and she suspected her life would never be quite the same again. She

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#63. I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir - " Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely " - and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.

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#64. mercy and justice are deadlier than any rifle or bayonet.

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#65. You can't waste resources reinforcing failure ...

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

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#67. There was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

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#68. Jesus, look at that idiot!" Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having

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#69. Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.

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#70. The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates.

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#71. That was about as good as it was going to get this side of a hot tub, a good-looking man, and a chocolate milkshake.

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#72. God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.

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#73. Agreement not to discuss. "He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another," Anders went on, "even if they all look pretty

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#74. Insurgent, terrorist, guerrilla, or patriot. As far as he was concerned, anyone who chose violence against the helpless as his means of protest deserved the same label: barbarian, and

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

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#76. The moral, Lieutenant, is that there is no such thing as a deadly weapon. There are only deadly people,

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

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#78. Recipient and that, as a surprise honeymoon gift, I'd

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#79. Victor smiled politely in return, the way someone smiles when they're thanked for having done a minor favor in times past. Held open a door in the rain, lent someone a small amount of money, butchered an ex-lover, that sort of thing.

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