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“The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.”

Lindsey Davis book Shadows in Bronze

Shadows in Bronze

“If being hit on the head by a falling flower tub could be worth cash to the victim, what price a child’s life under civil law?”

Lindsey Davis book The Ides of April

The Ides of April

“He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer.”

Lindsey Davis book The Ides of April

The Ides of April

“When I hear the words 'social order', I start looking around for somebody to pick a fight with.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

“Discovering that a fraud exists is only the first step. It has to be proved and the proof has to be absolutely watertight.”

Lindsey Davis book A Body in the Bath House

A Body in the Bath House

“We marched him to the turfy shack where he lived with his parents and while the youth sulked Petronius Longus put the whole moral issue in succinct terms to them: Ollia’s father was a legionary veteran who had served in Egypt and Syria for over twenty years until he left with double pay, three medals, and a diploma that made Ollia legitimate; he now ran a boxers’ training school where he was famous for his high-minded attitude and his fighters were notorious for their loyalty to him… The old fisherman was a toothless, hapless, faithless cove you would not trust too near you with a filleting knife, but whether from fear or simple cunning he co-operated eagerly. The lad agreed to marry the girl and since Silvia would never abandon Ollia here, we decided that the fisherboy had to come back with us to Rome. His relations looked impressed by this result. We accepted it as the best we could achieve.”

Lindsey Davis book Shadows in Bronze

Shadows in Bronze

“Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch he had never cast a vote. He believed a man on a public salary should be impartial. I didn’t agree but I admired him being so stubborn in his eccentricities. Aufidius Crispus would be an unusual politician if he had allowed for such morality in the voters he was courting.”

Lindsey Davis book Shadows in Bronze

Shadows in Bronze

“You're not bloody Aristophanes, and the people who are paying for tickets are not educated Athenians. We're acting for turnips who only come to talk to their cousins and fart. We have to give them a lot of action and low-level jokes, but you can leave all that to us on stage. We know what's required. Your job is to hone the basic framework and remember the simple motto: short speeches, short lines, short words.”

Lindsey Davis book Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.”

Lindsey Davis book The Third Nero

The Third Nero

“Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail.”

Lindsey Davis book The Jupiter Myth

The Jupiter Myth

“Intimidation and awe are how our rulers keep us respectful.”

Lindsey Davis book The Accusers

The Accusers

“It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

““Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had straightaway come together as a perfect fit. How they moved together, in effortless synchronicity and with such deep pleasure. How when their exercise left them exhausted, she cried a little, so Vinius wiped her eye with his index finger, murmuring kindly, 'No tears!' before they both fell into profound sleep.
How her troubled mind had drowned in peace, her body melting against his…”

Lindsey Davis book Master and God

Master and God

“But mere technical details can be worked out any time. All a hero needs is grit.”

Lindsey Davis book The Iron Hand of Mars

The Iron Hand of Mars