Honorverse favorite one-liners

Browne wrote:

Kizarvexis wrote:Here is one of my favorites from Ashes of Victory.

backstory
"I think your Graysons think I'm a bad influence on you, dear," Allison remarked as she and Honor walked down the third-floor hall of Honor's new mansion on their way to the ground-floor dining room. They turned a corner, and Allison paused at a sitting room's open door to properly admire the huge swath of ankle-deep carpet that stretched luxuriously from the door to an entire wall of one-way crystoplast and a breathtaking view of Jason Bay. It was the fourth such door she'd paused at, and each sumptuously furnished room had boasted its own, unique color combination and decorating style.


Alison's line
"Not too shabby," she approved in a deliberately blasé tone. "Still," she went on just a bit critically, "if I were you, I think I'd have the bay dyed a deeper blue."

This is really funny in that Honor is most likely rich enough to do this.

niethil wrote:Andrew in reply to Allison :

"Assassins, blades, bullets, and bombs come with the job, My Lady [...]. Diapers--and the surprises they so often contain--weren't listed anywhere when I signed up." (MoH 2720)

"Tell him I think the prisoners aboard Tepes are trying to take the ship . . . or destroy it."

cthia wrote:"Better to be hung for a hexapuma than a housecat," he thought.

Commander Pang Yau Pau. A Rising Thunder

"Are you threatening me?" he demanded incredulously.


Yes" Pang said simply. "I am."

..Pang smiled thinly. "Do you have Chalker's flagship ID'ed?"

"Yes Sir." Frasier nodded with an answering smile. "I do. By the strangest coincidence, I've just this minute discovered that I've got her ID'ed, dialed in, and locked up, as a matter of fact."

"As Admiral Truman says, we don't want to kill anyone who doesn't have to die. But if you're still prepared to fight your way through this terminus, Fleet Admiral Tsang, then you just bring it on."

"I guess that I should be getting accustomed to having foreign heads of state drop in with no warning, but I keep thinking we ought to get a little....I don't know, regularity, I suppose, into this sore of thing."

"You know, just the other day I was saying to Willie that we need to get some regularization into this business of visiting heads of state." She shook her head. "Somehow I suspect we're still behind the curve on that."