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Dorothy Dunnett has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting…
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with…
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you…
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character…
— Plato
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You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of…
— Arthur Koestler
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To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
— Umar
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Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.
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If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate…
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.
— Thomas Browne
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It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore...…
— Mick Ralphs
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alone, adj. In bad company.
— Ambrose Bierce
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