"Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the……" — Rosemary Sutcliff
"Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one."
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13 Quotes by Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff has 13 quotes on this site.
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We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
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When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is…
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...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.
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I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as…
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The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no…
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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served…
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And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will…
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But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely,…
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Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?” Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is…
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I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast"…
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It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come…
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And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or…
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