Honorverse favorite one-liners

If you’ve done neither at the end of those ten minutes, I will open fire once more, and this time we’ll be firing for effect.

"They also serve who stand and weld," Warner replied solemnly.

"So you and Admiral Webster want me to hang Young out to dry?"

"I'd just as soon have her making angry decisions instead of good ones."

Dame Estelle had looked ready to bite pieces out of the furniture, but as Honor had listened to her account of the meeting, she'd understood perfectly.

Honor had been astounded to learn from the commissioner that New Kiev had been told in unambiguous terms to keep her hands off the Navy's operations on Basilisk Station.

cthia wrote:On Basilisk Station

Dame Estelle had looked ready to bite pieces out of the furniture, but as Honor had listened to her account of the meeting, she'd understood perfectly.

I'll say it four score thousand times, an angry woman is sooo sexy. An angry, beautiful woman is just plain ... disarming.

Aside:
Who could play the part of Dame Estelle? Such a fine dame is she!

cthia wrote:On Basilisk Station

Dame Estelle had looked ready to bite pieces out of the furniture, but as Honor had listened to her account of the meeting, she'd understood perfectly.

I'll say it four score thousand times, an angry woman is sooo sexy. An angry, beautiful woman is just plain ... disarming.

Aside:
Who could play the part of Dame Estelle? Such a fine dame is she!

roseandheather wrote:
Angry Dame Estelle. Good Lord, do not get me started. I love Talbott-era Estelle too - obviously - and love her dearly, but there's just something so disarmingly perfect about OBS Estelle. Like Honor, she was younger, a bit rougher around the edges, and more likely to wear her heart on her sleeve. The image of her slowly leaning her head against the window and "gritt[ing] her teeth in pain" is one that has stayed with me since I first read the book - good Lord, I just want to wrap her in my arms and make all the pain go away.

As for who could do my baby justice - physically, I've always seen Michelle Krusiec in the role, though I'd also thought of Julia Nickson (she who played Catherine Sakai on Babylon 5). Lucy Liu has been bandied about, but we all know Lucy Liu is destined to play Allison Harrington.

cthia wrote:You think "OBS" Estelle was rough around the edges? What edges? There are only curves!

But really. You think? Well I never.

Allison being played by Lucy Liu is casting perfection. I have to admit that I'm not familiar with Michelle Krusiec, afaik. But I have been meaning to see a movie she's in called "Knife Fight," as it boasts a cast of 16 beautiful women! Can we say "veritable bevy of bold beautiful bodacious babes?"

"Remember that aboard this ship, you are Queen's officers. You may live, or you may die, but your actions-whatever they may be-will reflect not simply upon you, but upon every man and woman ever called upon to wear the uniform we all wear. See to it that any reflections you cast are the ones for which you want to be remembered… because you will be."