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They are both—I had the impression—as slippery as turds in mayonnaise. If you know what I mean.

— Season of storms by Andrzej Sapkowski, David A. French (Page 122)

‘…it was said that victory in this great war is so important … because it’s the great war to end all wars.’ … ‘Look, son,’ he said at last, very seriously. ‘Evangelina Parr is sitting at the bar. She is, one must admit, large. Why, even enormous. But in spite of her size, beyond all doubt, she isn’t a whore to end all whores.’

— Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski (Page 268)

Samhain’s music is the gale outside! It’s the howling of werewolves and vampires, the wailing and moaning of vengeful ghosts, and ghouls grinding their teeth! The beann’shie howls and cries and whoever hears her cry is destined to die soon. Every evil spirit leaves its hideaway, witches fly to their last coven before winter! Samhain is a night of frights, of marvels and visions!

— The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher Book 4) by Andrzej Sapkowski

And coups d’état and putsches are like green beet soup. They’re best served cold.

— The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher #2) (Page 181)

The engaging style and the extraordinary clarity of this book will make it a welcome contribution to a field that has typically appeared a great deal more difficult and obscure than Albert shows it to be.

— Quantum mechanics and experience by David Z. Albert

After he has learned, by their guidance, to write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature.

— The Elements of Style by William Strunk

Often in early youth an opinion or custom seems absurd to us, which, with advancing years, we discover has some justification and so appears less absurd. Ought we to conclude from this that certain customs are not so ridiculous as others? One might sometimes be tempted to think that they were established by people who had read the book of life through, and that they are judged by those who, despite their intelligence, have only glanced at a few pages.

— The Cynic's Breviary by Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (The Vigo cabinet series)

The day that Rackam was executed, by special favour, he was admitted to see her [Anne Bonney]; but all the comfort she gave him, was, that she was sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a man, he need not have been hang’d like a dog.

— A General History of the Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson

Being asked the meaning of this, he [Edward Teach aka 'Blackbeard'] only answered, by damning them, that if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was.

— A General History of the Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson