He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
He had been as careful as he knew how to be, but it had not been enough because he too had been hurt, by a loss he could afford less than Richard.
Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.
For a moment Lymond remained there, surveying them. His eight officers, staring edgily back, saw a delicate-looking gentleman in a pretty paned and pinked tunic with the finest voile shirt bands and a...
Daniel Hislop, the son of the bishop?’‘The Bishop’s bastard,’ said Hislop, with a cold-eyed assumption of coyness. ‘Sir. My lord. Jesus.’Lymond’s eyes turned to him, open. Then changing position, he s...
Come in,’ he said. ‘You can use Adam’s rooms.’ His hand, moving upwards, drew the fair, tangled hair clear of Lymond’s eyes and checked, at the shudder that ran jarring through from his fingertips.Lym...
Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius, or why worry about tomorrow, when your funeral is today. Goodbye.
But I can't offer you a zoo at St Mary's. Can you make do with what I have?''With Hoddim and Guthrie and Blacklock? What you have is a zoo.
And, surprisingly, it was Lymond’s voice which said sharply, ‘You cannot debar a human being from love!
And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again.
A lie is a broad and spacious and glittering thing, sweeping belief before it from its very grandeur. But the truth fits, like an old man cutting cloth in an attic.
When two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep.
[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don'...
You tried to …? How?’‘In the time-honoured fashion,’ he said. ‘My cuffs are too tight to gratify you with a view.
You see someone before you who is not afraid to say what he thinks, provided he is in a position of ascendancy with a door open behind him and a knife gripped in each hand.
You lead, therefore you kill.
Will you pack up all your cold-boiled emotions, and do what the hell you are told?
What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?
The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their comfort; their trunks peacefully swaying as the cowardie scuttled back...
Tant que je vive, mon cueur ne changeraPour nulle vivante, tant soit elle bonne ou sageForte et puissante, riche de hault lignaigeMon chois est fait, aultrene se fera***Long as I live, my heart will n...