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Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Lindsey Davis

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Tags: humor, witty

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.

Lindsey Davis

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.

About Author
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire. She is a recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award.

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.

Lindsey Davis

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someo...

Lindsey Davis

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someo...

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

Lindsey Davis

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug.

Lindsey Davis

This was a solitary walk where the sun and the scents of wild flowers would act on a tortured mind like a soothing drug.

Premature action alerts the opposition.

Lindsey Davis

Premature action alerts the opposition.

Legendary. ‘Oh no!

Lindsey Davis

Legendary. ‘Oh no!

Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.

Lindsey Davis

Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.

Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.

Lindsey Davis

Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.

The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.

Lindsey Davis

The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.

Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had straightaway come together as a perfect fit. How they moved together,...

Lindsey Davis

Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had straightaway come together as a perfect fit. How they moved together,...

You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.

Lindsey Davis

You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

Lindsey Davis

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

Curiosity is a terrible inducement.

Lindsey Davis

Curiosity is a terrible inducement.

By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antid...

Lindsey Davis

By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antid...

Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.

Lindsey Davis

Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.

It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.

Lindsey Davis

It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.

Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué,...

Lindsey Davis

Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué,...

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

Lindsey Davis

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.