“over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,”
“Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.He admired his own defiance.And then, reader, he fainted.”
“There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.”
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.”
“A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.”
“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it.”