Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“Mr. Rushworh was very ready to request the favour of Mr. Crawford's assistance; and Mr. Crawford after properly depreciating his own abilities, was quite…

— Jane Austen

“Scott, deaf and enchanted in the gallery, and the whole row of pretty heads at his side saw the concerted rush on Lymond: his…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Still, the Doctor walked among the terrors with a steady head. No man better known than he, in Paris at that day; no man…

— Charles Dickens

“[Pierre] was seized by terror lest he had aready in some way bound himself to do something that was evidently wrong, and that he…

— Tolstoy, Leo

“Von Schnitzler’s job was to show extracts from western television broadcast into the GDR—anything from news items to game shows to ‘Dallas’—and rip it…

— Anna Funder

“...though I am still...exceedingly puzzled as to why our murderer should decide to draw almost inevitable attention to himself by wearing such a conspicuous…

— Colin Dexter

“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from…

— Kingsley Amis

“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked…

— Nenia Campbell

“A moment later he was sent sprawling on a hard wood floor. The idiots left him alone – why they thought a simple bash…

— Anne Stuart

“Lymond said quietly, ‘You had good reason to hate me. I always understood that. I don’t know why you should think differently now, but…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of…

— Louis de Bernières

“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future.…

— Daniel Mark Epstein