178 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

No. I won’t. I won’t bend my knee, or kiss your charming shoes either. I may possibly fall flat on my face, but that will be quite inadvertent.

Before God, you are my soul; and till death and beyond, will remain so.

If time allowed, I should be delighted to discuss my private life in every choice particular with all of you, but it really isn’t relevant.

We all die,’ said Nostradamus. ‘The man you love. The man who loves you. The man you married. But because of you there will be something, I promise you, by which men will know Francis Crawford has been.

Something comes out of every voyage,’ said the other man sharply. ‘Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor; Sir Thomas, sitting before the fire, his bowels burning before him. We add something. If we didn’t add something, there would be no object in it.

I hope,’ said Jerott, breathing softly and hard, ’that you never meet those who will judge what you have done. How would you recognize love? Or compassion? Francis at least has learned that.

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.