Besserwisser

“In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight." - Jaime”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'

'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'

'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' ”
― Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men