513 Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.