Dorothy Dunnett Quotes.

1. "Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

2. "Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? When I think of it, damn it, I'm a public benefactor."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

3. "If I were yourself, I would perhaps give him his head. He looks a meek enough child. So did Heliogabalus at an early age, said Lymond. And Attila and Torquemada and Nero and the man who invented the boot. The only thing they had in common was a cherubic adolescence. And red hair, of course, makes it worse."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

4. "Be kind to her when she comes back. Her love is not only for children but for humanity. She will be a good-hearted and magnificent zealot one day. As her mother is now. Goodbye, Kate. And below he had signed as he rarely did, with his Christian name."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

5. "My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe"
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

6. "What about Odysseus?’ said Kiaya Khátún. Marthe turned away, and moved to the door. ‘He is not a man,’ she said. ‘He is Chaos, a mythical bird with a name, but no body; agreeable only to the eye of the mind."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

7. "I have given you nothing. I have shown you what was there in you already, and you have been man enough to destroy what is weak and to foster what is strong until it is unassailable."
- Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

8. "The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot."
- Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

9. "Perfectly prepared to be an eavesdropper but unwilling to look like one, Philippa backed quickly towards the door and collided, hard, with an unseen person striding forward equally fast into the room. There was a hiss, more than echoed by herself as the breath was struck from her body. Then two cool, friendly hands held and steadied her, one on her shoulder and one on her flat waist, and a low voice said, ‘Admirable Philippa. I always enter my battlefields in reverse, too. But my own battlefields, my little friend. Not other people’s."
- Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

10. "I have learned,’ said Lymond, ‘that kindness without love is no kindness."
- Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense