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Right? said Lymond. You pathetic, maladroit nincompoop, you're never right.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
For a moment Lymond remained there, surveying them. His eight officers, staring edgily back, saw a delicate-looking gentleman in a pretty paned and pinked tunic with the finest voile shirt bands and a link-belt of Italian enamel work. A man whose yellow hair, dry and light and unevenly tipped, eclipsed the sunlight behind him, and whose attic profile and unoccupied, long-shafted hands caused a small moan of ecstasy to burst, very circumspectly, from Mr Hislop's baby-pink lips.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This officer, but doubt, is callit deid.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Jerott had no reason to challenge her wit. For a woman, it seemed to him at times excessive to tiresomeness.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My dear man,' Philippa said. 'It seems to me that you have no spirit left but the spirit of resentment.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He was the sort of person one could with justice kill if only - if only one had had the sense to bring a weapon.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
We may lack some polish,' he said. 'But distrust the society which displays overmuch dangerous charm.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Jerott thought, acidly, that a slip of that dagger, if it happened, would save Francis Crawford a large sum of money.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Evil the drink and ill the resting place. I am not, unfortunately, asleep.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I rather think one of us drunk is sufficient.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I'm glad, in a way," Lymond said. "I couldn't quite bring myself to attack them, lunatics that they are." "You are sentimental," said Nicolas de Nicolay complacently. "But the tender stomach does not attack the pure—no—not even the pure in stupidity.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Then the righteous will shine like the sun and run about like sparks among reeds and all of you, I trust, will cease troubling me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond said, 'You were too intent on your own slaughter; too ruthless; too greedy. You have pushed me until I have no alternatives left. You must take the consequences of that.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Evil matters. So does love. So does pity. My pilgrim," said the Dame de Doubtance gently, "you have still three bitter lessons to learn.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What will you not achieve next time? You should be relieved. A lifetime of desertion, and you are still her favourite son.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Patriotism is a fine hothouse for maggots.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Liberty to drink and to debauch are said to recreate and refresh the soul.' 'Then——' said Kiaya Khátún. 'I have no soul,' said Lymond. 'Forgive me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I regret Richard isn't with you. No matter. God hath a thousand hand?s to chastise and I have two—how can Richard escape us both?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.' 'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree." The odd phrase stayed with Chancellor, through Pinega and beyond
~ Dorothy Dunnett
You're indecent.' Tobie dragged down his shirt. 'It reflects my state of mind,' he said.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He has the exact Crawford colouring.' 'Egg mimicry,' said Lymond.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Then Richard said, 'That was crude, for you.' 'But as you will find,' said Lymond softly, addressing the sand, 'I am a very crude man.
~ Dorothy Dunnett