Esther Friesner Quotes

You may hear the priests claim that revenge belongs to the gods and should never be the property of man.
Leave it to the gods to hog the best bits of life for themselves. When you have your enemies skewered, I think it would be wasteful not to stay and watch them writhe. I would even call it impolite. I value courtesy.

Don’t mistake gratitude for love.

Power can command wealth but wealth can’t always command power.

In for a lamb, in for a ram, as the sheep-stealers say just before we hang them.

There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity.

Talent is no doxy to follow only where gold jingles. Even in the poorest hovels artists can be born as often as cutpurses.

Sex is like the pursuit of wild mushrooms: Both are fascinating hobbies, both can prove most addictive, and both for the most part yield tasty results.
And yet, for the novice, there exists always the chance of making that one fatal mistake. Ah, but if one lives, one learns!

There are always miracles where there are children, and fascination for any tale that opens their eyes to marvels, whether or not they are sensible marvels. Even a pig knows that.

Time had passed. It will, given half the chance.

Some people just don't stop to think; they're too busy swallowing nightmares whole.

Accidents happen; clothing does not.

Pigs possess a certain native intelligence and common sense by and large missing from our greater poets. When despair lays its clammy paws across their fevered porcine brows, they do not slump about composing sonnets; they take action.