There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.