Top 100 Lackey Quotes
#1. If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
William Godwin
#2. I'm not doing any vampire lackey stuff."
"Fine."
"I'm only drinking your blood."
That made his smile widen. "Fine."
"That means you're stuck with me." She jutted out her chin. "Try to throw me off for some bimbo and we'll see who's immortal.
Nalini Singh
#3. You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
Karl Pilkington
#4. One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
Horace Mann
#5. I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.
Ayad Allawi
#6. Your mam's up there havin' a babbie, in case you've forgotten.' Seth kept the knife steady. 'I haven't forgotten, but Pearl's been Mam's lackey from the day she could toddle, an' you
Rita Bradshaw
#7. You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridiculous organization. From now on, I shall do exactly as I wish and you cannot stop me. Do not follow. Do not watch. Do not even attempt to contact me or you'll be sorry indeed. Do you understand?
Libba Bray
#8. Grumble is the god of henchmen and minions. Once a former lackey himself, after his deification he chose to look over his own people rather than putting on airs.
Drew Hayes
#9. I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#10. "My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.
Robert Six
#11. Especially given the severity of some of her curses. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey if she had her way. (Braden)
Kinley MacGregor
#12. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.
Kinley MacGregor
#13. When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
George Herbert
#15. To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
Ely Culbertson
#17. Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
Mercedes Lackey
#18. My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.
Mercedes Lackey
#19. These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.
Mercedes Lackey
#20. So her safe little world would never be safe again ... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.
Mercedes Lackey
#21. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Mercedes Lackey
#22. And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.
Mercedes Lackey
#23. There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.
Mercedes Lackey
#24. I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.
Mercedes Lackey
#25. There will always be bad times ... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
#26. In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.
Mercedes Lackey
#27. We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.
Mercedes Lackey
#28. [ ... ] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"
He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts.
Mercedes Lackey
#29. Hell, if you don't look out for your friends, who you gonna drink with?
Chris Lackey
#30. I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,
Mercedes Lackey
#31. You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,
Mercedes Lackey
#33. Kethry had once described summoning as being like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.
Mercedes Lackey
#34. Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion - it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
Mercedes Lackey
#35. Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.
Mercedes Lackey
#36. I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. "And that is this; which way do you want them sliced - lengthwise, or widthwise?
Mercedes Lackey
#37. Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
Mercedes Lackey
#38. I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
Mercedes Lackey
#39. You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
Mercedes Lackey
#40. It was partly a matter of the simple fact that late fall was slaughtering time. Anything that could not be preserved had to be eaten. For instance, hens too old to lay eggs anymore and all the roosters but the chief of the flock were often killed at this time.
Mercedes Lackey
#41. When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
Mercedes Lackey
#42. You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She
Mercedes Lackey
#43. Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen
Mercedes Lackey
#44. We are to call hares ad become mushrooms," Jermayan explained kindly. "Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror."
"Yes of course," Kellen said, with only a touch of irony."That makes perfect sense.
Mercedes Lackey
#45. It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
Mercedes Lackey
#46. When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp - and hate.
Mercedes Lackey
#47. :They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:
Mercedes Lackey
#48. Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
Mercedes Lackey
#49. Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
Mercedes Lackey
#50. Talia was always intimidated by her presence, and always felt she looked hoydenish and disheveled, no matter how carefully she'd prepared herself for confrontations.
Mercedes Lackey
#51. We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.
Mercedes Lackey
#52. It was Mags' turn to snort. But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th' same room at th' same time.
Mercedes Lackey
#53. So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black.
Mercedes Lackey
#54. Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
Mercedes Lackey
#55. She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.
Mercedes Lackey
#56. These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
#58. Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Mercedes Lackey
#59. That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
Mercedes Lackey
#61. Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.
Mercedes Lackey
#62. If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
Mercedes Lackey
#64. The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.
Mercedes Lackey
#65. If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
Mercedes Lackey
#66. I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
Mercedes Lackey
#67. Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Mercedes Lackey
#69. Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.
Mercedes Lackey
#70. Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be,
Mercedes Lackey
#71. Kidpool: Seems like we spend a lot of time bashing flunkies. There's no end to them.
Lady Deadpool: They belong to the same union as Stormtroopers and red shirts.
Victor Gischler
#72. If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that.
Mercedes Lackey
#73. There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.
Mercedes Lackey
#74. From what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
Mercedes Lackey
#75. Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good.
Mercedes Lackey
#76. Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones
Mercedes Lackey
#78. I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.
Mercedes Lackey
#79. He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags
Mercedes Lackey
#80. Ain't necessarily 'bout bein' the 'right one' so much as it is bein' the one that's there an' willin'.
Mercedes Lackey
#81. Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him ... even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven ... Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.
Mercedes Lackey
#82. Yeah, and if I have to choose between being eaten by the Endarkened and telling my Da I'm a Wildmage, I'm not sure which I'd pick.
Mercedes Lackey
#83. Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
Mercedes Lackey
#84. Many of them were not problems at all, only the perception of a problem, and simply delaying a decision would make it less of a perceived problem with every passing day.
Mercedes Lackey
#85. You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.
Mercedes Lackey
#86. When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.
Mercedes Lackey
#87. If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!
Mercedes Lackey
#88. You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said.
Yeah, Eugens said shakily. ' ... Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
Mercedes Lackey
#89. Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -
Mercedes Lackey
#90. I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.
Mercedes Lackey
#91. Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
Mercedes Lackey
#92. There were times that Tiercel thought that the Wild Magic had a far greater sense of humor than the Light-Priests had ever spoken of, considering that to help him oppose the forces of Darkness, it had made Harrier Gillain a Wildmage.
Mercedes Lackey
#93. Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
Mercedes Lackey
#94. He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
Mercedes Lackey
#95. But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board
Mercedes Lackey
#96. I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.
Mercedes Lackey
#97. Now you're just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.:
Mercedes Lackey
#98. How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.
Mercedes Lackey
#99. Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
Mercedes Lackey
#100. Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
Mercedes Lackey
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