Lindsey Davis quotes

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. (Lindsey Davis)
To know another person's fortune smacks of wanting to control their fate for the wrong reasons. View quote
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Communicating wit is a lonely art. It demands an independent soul. View quote
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This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug. View quote
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We are Romans. We despise thought. View quote
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Senator, don't let your judgement be warped by one heady moment. View quote
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Love and death are gritty subjects. Their appropriate handling by poets does not require myrtle petals and violets. View quote
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Never stop to breathe the pretty flower scents. The graves of the poor still stink. View quote
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In fact, making up a spiteful lie has become respectable. Today's "jesters" are outright public nuisances. View quote
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To be born with nothing was grim. But to be born with everything, then to lose it, was far more cruel. View quote
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Luck is a wonderful luxury. What could better prove that some are born under a star of good fortune than the career (and the large, comfortable home) of the Great King? (Lindsey Davis)
I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the butcher's bill than by some mad limb like Nero, who was brought up believing himself the son and the grandson of gods, and who thought wearing the purple gave him free rein to indulge his personal vanities, execute real talent, bankrupt the Treasury, burn half of Rome – and bore the living daylights out of paying customers in theatres! View quote
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A wise partner does not come between her man and his best friend. View quote
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Curiosity is a terrible inducement. View quote
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The world is full of people slandering their birthplaces, as if they really believe that small-town life is different elsewhere. View quote
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Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool? View quote
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Do you kill people?' 'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards. View quote
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This was no more cynical than most lying lozenge-pushers, but when he thought it mattered, Rhoemetalces had been honest. We cannot have that. Rome is a complex, sophisticated society. Truth is distrusted as much as Greek philosophy. View quote
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Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs. View quote
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There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands. View quote
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Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord. (Lindsey Davis)
Architectural drawings may look beautiful and be admired by critics but to be good, they have to work in daily use. View quote
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Their work was undercover-yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works. View quote
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Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. View quote
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He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs. View quote
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