Michael F. Flynn Quotes

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.

Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking.

Brilliance cannot improvise on faulty data.

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

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

She said nothing, but said it loudly.

But scouts, he told himself firmly, must observe what is, not what they wish to see.

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

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.

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

One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.

You have a grim taste in miracles, my friend.

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

This was an omen for sure, but one with no obvious meaning.

Cigars were for talk; pipes for reflection.