And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.