“Y lo peor de todo: si permites que las amistades pesen en el gobierno, pronto tendrás camarillas”
Source: Barrayar
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Famous Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes
Source: The Warrior's Apprentice
Source: Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem
Source: The Curse of Chalion
“Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.”
“There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
Source: Young Miles
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”
“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
Source: The Vorkosigan Companion
“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”
Source: The Vorkosigan Companion
“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”
Source: The Vorkosigan Companion
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
Source: Miles Errant
Source: A Civil Campaign
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
Source: A Civil Campaign
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
Source: A Civil Campaign
“You have to be careful who you let define your good.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?”
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.”
Source: Komarr
“Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“All true wealth is biological.”
Source: Mirror Dance
Source: Komarr
“Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.”
Source: Miles Errant
“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”