Final Sanctuary Quote by Neil Gaiman

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally…

— Neil Gaiman

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats”

— Neil Gaiman

“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a…

— Neil Gaiman

“The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken:…

— Georgette Heyer

“How abandoned by me he must feel. In his first interview, he tried to protect me from the Capitol and rebels alike, and not…

— Suzanne Collins

“I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, "The Marquis de Saint Eustache, I believe."…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like…

— Neil Gaiman

“He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader…

— Frank Herbert

“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total…

— Neil Gaiman

“...while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for…

— Colum McCann

“Vimes stuck his helmet under his arm, smoothed back his hair, and knocked. He'd considered asking Sargent Colon to accompany him, but had brushed…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost,…

— Elizabeth Goudge