178 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

I shall let you know,’ Lymond said, ’when I am ready to embrace you, and with what. In the meantime should you seek a favour, ask elsewhere.

I suppose that was just something you ate; or are you bloody well pregnant as well?

Oh, Marigold!” Lymond spoke plaintively. “A silken tongue, a heart of cruelty. Don’t berate us. We’re only poor scoundrels – vagabonds – scraps of society; unlettered and untaught.

Although I despise the hanging jaw of hunger, I do not intend that the needy should look to me for their banquet.

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.

Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody’s favourite slave?

Lymond ha vuelto.

Intentions, yours or anyone else’s, don’t matter; they never matter and never excuse: get that into your head.

I have fallen out of the habit of talking to brothers,’ Lymond said.