“Impatience makes fools of clever men...”

“She crept around the house listening for breathing, chocolate eating, breaking porcelain, or any of the other peculiar little noises children make.”

“You can tell which ones are the artists,' Nanny Piggins said loudly, for she could be instructive when she chose to be. 'They are the useless-looking one wearing cardigans.' There were indeed several useless-looking, grouchy young men wearing cardigans among the crowd. And those who had heard Nanny Piggins's comment glared at her instead of glaring meaningfully into empty space like they normally did.”

“But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.”

“A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.”

“A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.”

“Where in the Nine Hells did you ever get the notion I would fight fair?"Drizzt Do'Urden”