Shadow of Victory Quotes

“I sometimes think that when flag officers go to hell, they’ll have to wait in purgatory for the dispatch boat with their movement orders to catch up with them.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“Shit,” Captain Ephron Vangelis, Solarian League Navy, said very quietly and precisely. * * * “Fire Plan Bravo,” Scotty Tremaine said.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“His mental jury was still out on Massimo Filareta—as a naval commander, at least. As a human being, Tamaguchi could only be grateful the Manties had eliminated him from the gene pool.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“Which won’t be a bad thing.” Gold Peak smiled coldly. “And God knows, sometimes you have to be just a little obvious to make Sollies pay attention.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“And whatever the Sollies may think, we’re at war with the bastards now, Helena. So if there’s anyone out here stupid enough to pull the trigger rather than cut his wedge and surrender when he sees Manticoran warships entering his system, he’ll deserve whatever the hell he gets.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“In fact, it sounds like her damned dog was the only survivor—the bastards just stun-gunned it!”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“Especially since I would gleefully cut off his balls and tie them around his neck for a bowtie, she thought, and smiled at him from the facing seat as she allowed her imagination to dwell lovingly upon the possibility.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“If there happened to be a single word of truth in these ‘assumptions’ of yours—which there isn’t, of course—you’d probably be a dead man sometime in the next, oh, thirty seconds.” —First Sergeant Vincent Frugoni, Solarian League Marine Corps (retired)”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“Leaving Chotěboř totally unable to implement the solution to its desperate health crisis out of its own resources. And that was why President Hruška, at the instigation of newly elected Vice President Cabrnoch, had taken the only option he’d seen and petitioned the Solarian League’s Office of Frontier Security for aid. Which OFS had provided…under its customary terms. Which was how Chotěboř had effectively completely lost control of the resources of its own star system.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“The Mesan Alignment has a plan—one it’s been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race—its way.”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory

“as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. “My”
― David Weber, Shadow of Victory