Michael F. Flynn Quotes

If people don’t leave a hole in your life when they are gone, Consuela, they were never in your life at all.

Men afraid may see demons in the familiar, and direct their fear of the insensible to a fear of the sensible."
"Thought-lacking!"
"So it is; but it is what folk do.

Much as I would tend my manor in peace, peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war. I swore an oath to protect the defenseless and punish peace-breakers, and that includes peace-breaking Herrenfolk. Your priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had right, too. It is a false peace to be overforgiving. Your enemy may read forbearance as weakness and so be drawn to strike.

He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.

The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms.

He could not live again in Paris. It had seemed better then only because he had been younger, and had not yet known contentment.

As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility.

He read the document a second time, but the words had not changed.

Cigars were for talk; pipes for reflection.

The stories I have to tell are not for the ears of youngsters. What were the stories, really? A crowd of men charged from the trench. Later, some of them came back. What more was there to say? Once, a long time ago, war had been glamorous, with pageantry and uniforms to shame a peacock. Now it was only necessary, and the uniforms were the color of mud.

She said nothing, but said it loudly.

He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.

You have a grim taste in miracles, my friend.

The nag is as fat as a monk—and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance.

Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking.