Gaius Merlin Quotes & Sayings

As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore. — Ryan O'Connell

The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant and twaddle? — Oscar Wilde

You can't ever know the real anybody unless you're friends with them. And sometimes not even then. — Susane Colasanti

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. — Donald Ervin Knuth

Its like Mrs Fitzherbert all over again, or that bloody Simpson woman! I do not believe it!"
"Sorry," said Merlin, wondering who the blazes Mrs Fitzherbert and that bloody Simpson woman
were. He had a feeling Gaius didn't mean Marge. — FayJay

Tell me, priest,' I ordered, 'or I'll cut you open right here, and your followers can try to pray you back together. — Leigh Bardugo

[Merlin - on realizing the he'd killed a man with his magic.]
It was easy. It shouldn't have been so easy to do something so big ... So final ...
[Gaius] ... Oh Merlin! With magic or without it is always dreadfully easy to do something so big. And bigger. This is the terrible terrible lesson which we never learn from history. Hurting other people is never hard, even though it should be.. — FayJay