Honorverse favorite one-liners

Amaroq wrote:
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?

“I want him hammered so hard even Sollies have to get the message that this…is a war—their war—and that wars have consequences!”
—Admiral Lady Dame Honor Alexander-Harrington,
Steadholder and Duchess Harrington

cthia wrote:

Amaroq wrote:
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?

I wish we could have years of Elizabeth newly claiming the throne.
i would expect that to be a consuming read.

"Oh, stop it!"

Hutch wrote:

cthia wrote:
I wish we could have years of Elizabeth newly claiming the throne.
i would expect that to be a consuming read.

Ahem.

If you haven't picked up "House of Steel", the Honorverse Companion yet, I would suggest that be your next stop after digesting ART.

Michelle Henke admired Honor Harrington enormously, but she wasn't Honor, and she knew it. She knew hers was in many ways a less complex personality, and she'd never been plagued by the soul-searching that was so much a part of Honor. When it came down to it, she'd always been more . . . direct. More black-and-white, less inclined to empathize with an enemy or agonize over the consequences to an enemy. She was comfortable with the notion of "us" and "them," and she didn't like ambiguities that could cloud and confuse her decisions.

Scathach wrote:Hiya! My first post!
Woop! Woop!

I just finished re-reading the main series and this time I had time to take a note of some of my fave parts

"Just don't stay out late, Stinker," she warned him.
"Mac and I won't wait for supper - and we're having rabbit."
HAE

"Officers who score on their COs have short and grisly careers, Mr Cardones" she informed him
HAE

"Take it from me kid, when the Old Lady asks questions, she gets answers, and you don't want to be the one who pisses her off." HAE

- Those who couldn't walk were dragged, and as Thomas Theisman watched them go, he knew he would never feel clean again IEH
(I loved Tom from the very beginning... but it's in moment like this that I just want to hug him very tight. You amazing Havenite!!!)

"Captain, will you please just trust me and get your butts in gear, Sir? We've gotta haul ass if we don't want to end up with a real case of dead!" IEH (and basically everything that Horace says.)

"Merry Christmas, Wesley"

"Good-bye, Citizen Chairman" I know it was probably quoted before. But it's too good.

- Alfredo Yu, for his part, had seated himself at the writing desk and was idly doodling on a sheet of paper with an old-fashiones stylus
I love Alfredo to bits, and when I read this line I laughed out loud.

"Don't make me kill anymore, Madame President. Please." MOH

"Hey, he started it!" Cachat said virtuosly, jabbing a finger in Zilwicki's direction.
"Did not."
"Did too!"
"Didn't!"
"Did!"
I LOVE THESE TWO!!!

Hutch wrote:
Ahem.

If you haven't picked up "House of Steel", the Honorverse Companion yet, I would suggest that be your next stop after digesting ART.

"And Hamish’s delightful phrase about excreting bricks is probably a pretty fair description of how ACS is going to react when Theisman starts bringing two or three hundred Republican podnoughts through the Junction!”

"It’s just—”
“Just that you’re human,” Elizabeth said quietly. Honor looked at her, and the empress shrugged, stroking Ariel’s ears as he lay across her lap. “I can read sign, too, you know. And I know you both well enough to follow the subtext.” She smiled sadly. “You’re not the only person who’s been hit hard enough to be a little illogical, either. Sometimes I think the smarter we are, the better we are at finding ways to hammer ourselves with imagined disasters ahead of time.”