"I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild……" — Dorothy Dunnett
"I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people."
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29 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good…
- But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in…
- And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination.…
- Music, the knife without a hilt,
- But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a…
- After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of…
- Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love…
- Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
- Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
- [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should…
- I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
- The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale…
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