Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett

[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don’t you know it? I don’t, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.

Giving Up

Mean

Men

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Height

Men

Might

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem – which is usually off limits for tourists.

Giving

Novelists

Tourism

And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

Fighting

Knights

Religious

And habits are hell’s own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They’re the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Ambition

Imagination

Ruins

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

Army

Men

Sheep

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

Fate

Hands

Men

But it’s also because of something personal. 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.

Father

Games

Mother

Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

Answers

Office

Thinking

Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.

Aunt

Brother

Doors

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Answers

Army

Aunt

Awake

Boredom

Brother

Children

Christian

Cutting

Disease

Doors

Enemy

Excuse

Faces

Fate

Father

Fighting

Friendly

Games

Genius

Gideon

Giving

Giving Up

Greek

Hair

Hands

Hate

Height

Ifs

Imagination

Immaturity

Joining

Knights

Knives

Lasts

Links

Looks

Love

Manifold

May

Mean

Men

Might

Mind

Missing

Mother

News

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Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem – which is usually off limits for tourists.

And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

And habits are hell’s own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They’re the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

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

But it’s also because of something personal. 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.

Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

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