Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
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Dorothy Dunnett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Adam!' said Danny. 'You mustn't drop out of the choir. We have too much to do. What do we have to do?
Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure - if he survives the experience.
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said.
We may lack some polish,' he said. 'But distrust the society which displays overmuch dangerous charm.
I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.
And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again.
I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
I could see you drop dead this minute from paralysis of the brain cells and burst into uninhibited applause.
What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it.
Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?
Lymond said, 'Have I been talking?'
'We all have, in nightmares. But yours have not been about the sea.
'We all have, in nightmares. But yours have not been about the sea.
I wish,' said Lymond, 'it would try a major key sometimes.'
'Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature.
'Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature.
She wouldn't send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches' Sabbaths every full moon,' explained Philippa tartly.
Mariotta listened to it all, sitting judicially in a whirl of velvet with all
the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support.
the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support.
One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.
Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
And deep within him, missing its accustomed tread, his heart paused, and gave one single stroke, as if on an anvil.
I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.
I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk - just once - in prose like other people.
Go away and bleed to death,' said his onetime saviour sharply. 'On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.
The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too.
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.
I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.'
'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.
'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.
It was a tragic and annihilating war, in which intellect fought naked with intellect, and the blows fell not upon the mind but upon the soul.
If he is tired, and they put a foot wrong, he will choose the one unmentionable response and make it. He did it last night.
The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.
Henry of England had all the virtues and all the faults, and solved the contradiction by making scapegoats and sin-eaters of half his entourage.
I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.
I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.
He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.
And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love!
Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something.
He is not going to come back now, for me, for you or for anyone. This time he has found the boatman, and the boatman has taken him over.
The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.