Honorverse favorite one-liners

SWM wrote:Cthia, I think the problem is a
misunderstanding of Manticore's zero tolerance policy. It does NOT mean automatic and immediate execution. Zero tolerance means that every pirate is sent to appropriate authorities for trial; they are never simply released. If convicted of piracy, the usual sentence in Manticore is death. But even in Manticore, a lesser sentence can be given in some circumances. In fact, it is possible that a pirate might be acquitted, or convicted of a lesser sentence in some circumstances. Manticoran naval commanders have the authority (but not the obligation) to try pirates in the field, sentence, and execute punishment. But most pirates are simply sent on to a planetary authority for trial.

Honor did not release the pirates. She very correctly handed them over to the local police, along with the evidence. That is not the same as giving the pirates a second chance--the pirates were supposed to go on trial for their crimes. The local government argued (with considerable validity) that they were the appropriate authorities to try local pirates. In turning them over to the police, Honor was fully complying with Manticore's zero tolerance policy toward pirates. She had the option of summary trial and execution, but political considerations weighed in favor of giving the local government a chance to demonstrate their system of justice. That is not really the same as giving the pirates a second chance. Honor was following the zero tolerance policy by turning the pirates over to appropriate authorities for trial.

Damewood rose from his chair. Unfolded from his seat, it might be better to say. The XO seemed to have a skeleton with considerably more bones than any member of the human species had a right to. There were rumors that he was the product of dark experiments done in complete violation of Beowulf’s code of biological ethics.

cthia wrote:CoG

Damewood rose from his chair. Unfolded from his seat, it might be better to say. The XO seemed to have a skeleton with considerably more bones than any member of the human species had a right to. There were rumors that he was the product of dark experiments done in complete violation of Beowulf’s code of biological ethics.

Never ceases to amaze me, the products of genetic tampering.

cthia wrote:
CoG

Damewood rose from his chair. Unfolded from his seat, it might be better to say. The XO seemed to have a skeleton with considerably more bones than any member of the human species had a right to. There were rumors that he was the product of dark experiments done in complete violation of Beowulf’s code of biological ethics.

Never ceases to amaze me, the products of genetic tampering.

SWM wrote:
I was unable to decide whether that sentence meant that he really did have extra bones and joints, or whether he was so amazingly agile or flexible that he seemed to have extra joints. I sort of lean toward the latter, probably because the former is rather scary. But either way, yeah, extreme genetic modification.

Damewood smiled. “Nothing fancy, Ganny. It’d just be nice to have you pulling away from the station right as this new ship is arriving and cursing a blue streak on an open frequency. You could even directly warn the incoming people that they’re about to be fleeced by the greediest and most unscrupulous bastards this side of Betelgeuse.”

cthia wrote:Cauldron of Ghosts
one-liner emphasized.

Damewood smiled. “Nothing fancy, Ganny. It’d just be nice to have you pulling away from the station right as this new ship is arriving and cursing a blue streak on an open frequency. You could even directly warn the incoming people that they’re about to be fleeced by the greediest and most unscrupulous bastards this side of Betelgeuse.”

Hillarious. And forgive me but I cannot prevent my associating this with the unscrupulous and greedy persona of the character Beetlejuice. Gotta love Jim Carey.

cthia wrote:Cauldron of Ghosts
one-liner emphasized.

Damewood smiled. “Nothing fancy, Ganny. It’d just be nice to have you pulling away from the station right as this new ship is arriving and cursing a blue streak on an open frequency. You could even directly warn the incoming people that they’re about to be fleeced by the greediest and most unscrupulous bastards this side of Betelgeuse.”

Hillarious. And forgive me but I cannot prevent my associating this with the unscrupulous and greedy persona of the character Beetlejuice. Gotta love Jim Carey.

Imaginos1892 wrote:Uhhh....that was Michael Keaton.

Gave me a bit of a turn a few years later: "What? Beetlejuice is going to play Batman? What are they smokin'?"

“—une vraie salope! And as for you, dickless, I wouldn’t wish you on a Melbourne humpmonkey! Although you’d probably do okay with my second cousin Odom—that’s short for Sodom; his family dropped the ‘s’ after his third conviction for fumbled rape, on account of he’d become an embarrassment to them—when he gets out of prison in maybe fifty or sixty years. I’ll make sure to tell him to look you up although I doubt you’ll still be alive by then, the way you swindle people.

Vince wrote:What do you think the Honorverse book with the most one-liners is? And separately, what Honorverse book has the most memorable one-liners?

I think Cauldron of Ghosts has the most one-liners. Maybe even the most memorable one-liners.