Lindsey Davis Quotes

#1. I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

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#2. Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

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#3. A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.

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#4. In my experience, men who sit in corners are the ones to watch.

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#5. He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However,

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

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

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

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#9. He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.

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

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#11. Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.

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#12. 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 someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.

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#13. The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.

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#14. I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.

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#15. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.

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#16. She called me a rat.' 'Oh yes, I gathered you two were very close!

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#17. Some men are born lucky. Others are born Marcus Didius Falco.

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#18. They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.

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#19. Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

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