Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”

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

“Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.”

“It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.”