33 Quotes by S.M. Stirling

Nothing’s free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

I’m always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

It wasn’t taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior’s mind.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.