Lindsey Davis

“All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Premature action alerts the opposition.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Curiosity is a terrible inducement.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Spies have no sense of timing.”

— Lindsey Davis

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

— Lindsey Davis

“The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed…

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“Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.”

— Lindsey Davis

A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.

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“Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.”

— Lindsey Davis

“popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.”

— Lindsey Davis

“In my experience, men who sit in corners are the ones to watch.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised…

— Lindsey Davis

“We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival…

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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.”

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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…

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“No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow…

— Lindsey Davis

“He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a…

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“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could…

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“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If…

— Lindsey Davis

“It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want…

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“Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch…

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“Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had…

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“We marched him to the turfy shack where he lived with his parents and while the youth sulked Petronius Longus put the…

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Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists…

— Lindsey Davis

“You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.”

— Lindsey Davis

“She called me a rat.’ ‘Oh yes, I gathered you two were very close!”

— Lindsey Davis

“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.”

— Lindsey Davis

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

— Lindsey Davis

“I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.”

— Lindsey Davis

“I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

— Lindsey Davis

“any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.”

— Lindsey Davis