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“He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant — that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 127)

“The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 282

Disease

“So much for that line of reasoning, Lord Richars," Ekaterin finished. She sat back with a hand-dusting gesture, and added, by no means under her breath, "Twit'.'”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“Any community's arm of force — military, police, security — needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

People , Communication , Question , Evil

“Why shouldn't a madman dream of being sane?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 224)

Dreams

“Government by thugs in the Bloody Centuries gave Barrayar many colorful historical incidents, suitable for high drama. I don't think it's a drama we wish to return to in real life.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

Life , Color , Thinking

“You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

Time

“Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Yes, he thought, the good face pain. But the great—they embrace it.

Aftermaths (p. 253)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

Death , Pain , Hurt , Dead

“The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

Thinking , Hurt

“In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“Eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)

People
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: “A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”

“A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)

“He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 284)

God

“One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 459

“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

Cooking

“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)