“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011Related quotes

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
Variant: There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
Source: The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)

Witchcraft
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)

92nd Street Y Cultural Center (2007)

The Paris Review interview (1982)
Context: She doesn’t hold back anything from them. When they beg her not to depart, she reminds them that nothing lasts forever. She’s as truthful as the nursery rhymes. Remember that all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again. There’s such a tremendous truth in that. It goes into children in some part of them that they don’t know, and indeed perhaps we don’t know. But eventually they realize — and that’s the great truth.
"Elbow Room", p. 188.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition