178 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

You don't take offence?""Frequently," Nicholas said. "I seldom show it.

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.

A moment later the music began, and Kate shrank beneath the onslaught of its message: the fury of hope and joy that towered in the notes, outburning the sunlight and outpouring the volumes of the sea. All that was bold and noble and happy in created sound burst from the metempirical quills, and it was a blasphemy not to rejoice.Christian died in its midst, purposeful and successful; the last struggle unseen by anyone but Kate, and laying no bridle on the living.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Two men who dislike each other never notice the third on their backs.

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can.