Honorverse favorite one-liners

Amaroq wrote:From AAC after the "reveal" to Elizabeth that Honor, Hamish, and Emily are married:

At the moment, however, there is no effective Opposition. The only person who could put one together, really, is Cathy Montaigne, and given her own... irregular personal life-not to mention her basic personality-she'll be standing on top of the Parliament building toasting the brides and groom and leading choruses of obscene drinking songs in their honor.

Can anyone else totally picture Cathy doing this? And then going on to speculate on the nature of obscene Manticoran drinking songs?

roseandheather wrote:Not only can I picture her doing it, I need a published scene thereof in the next appropriate Baen publication with all the force of a great typhoon.

....and I'm going to go turn off the Disney now.

drothgery wrote:

cthia wrote:Where can I purchase an eARC of COG? Baen? Here?

You can get e-arcs of Baen-published books at http://www.baenebooks.com

However, at this point there's no need to do so; you can get the real thing from
http://www.baenebooks.com/p-2283-cauldr ... hosts.aspx even if you can't get the eBook from Amazon until the print street date in a few weeks.

Amaroq wrote:

roseandheather wrote:Not only can I picture her doing it, I need a published scene thereof in the next appropriate Baen publication with all the force of a great typhoon.

....and I'm going to go turn off the Disney now.

Rose, you really are as mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

cthia wrote:Indulge me once more, please.
For all who have read CoG. Can you give a short review w/o spoiling. Did it deliver? Comments? Allowable, spoil-free comments that is.

cthia wrote:Indulge me once more, please.
For all who have read CoG. Can you give a short review w/o spoiling. Did it deliver? Comments? Allowable, spoil-free comments that is.

cthia wrote:
This one from At All Costs: "I don't give a damn what Elizabeth wants!" Honor snapped. Hamish blinked, sitting back and looking at her in astonishment. "Not this time, Hamish!" she continued angrily. "I want to see my wife and daughter. The Queen of Manticore, the Protector of Grayson, and the Emperor of the Known Universe can all get in line and wait behind the two of them!" --Honor knows what is important-and the Queen will just have to wait awhile...

Actually this passage surprised me. Honor was notorious for never being able to put herself first. And to don a new attitude beginning with the Queen of Manticore was shocking. But sweet.

roseandheather wrote:And easily the single best quote in the entire book:

She'd snapped the unlucky messenger's head off and sent him home with it under one arm and a detailed account of the nature and severity of recently discovered violations of Her Majesty's Medusan Protectorate's laws under the other. And, she'd told Honor with grim delight, she'd concluded her report with the observation that the discovery of those violations had been made possible solely by the "dedicated, professional, persistent, and outstandingly successful efforts, both in their own right and in association with the NPA" (that was a direct quote) of Commander Honor Harrington and the crew of HMS Fearless. Under the circumstances, Dame Estelle had added, she had no intention of striving to abate Commander Harrington's activities and every intention of aiding and abetting them in any way she could. And if Her Majesty's Government disapproved of her intentions, she would, of course, submit her resignation.

“That’s going to touch off a firestorm in the Fleet,” MacArtney said after a moment. “I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying the Navy’s going to see it as a bunch of civilians stabbing the uniforms in the back to cover their own backsides.”
“Of course they are!” Agatá Wodoslawski snorted. “If they don’t see it that way, they’ll have to admit their precious Navy couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse!”