# Quote — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

> “It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.”
>
> “Ob...obseek...?”
>
> “Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’”

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md)
- Page: 262
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#The_Dragonbone_Chair_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/it-would-please

## More from this book

> He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/he-who-is-certain.md)

> “Is this being in love?” he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting.

p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/is-this-being.md)

> “Now, boy, now...” he said bewilderedly, “what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/now-boy-now.md)