All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.