Top 36 Lymond's Quotes
#1. And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love!
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#2. Lymond's life was lived on this level: the level on which the future of whole communities could be steered or reshaped, improved or jeopardized by a handful of people.
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#3. A smile, bracketing his still mouth, spread like bane over Lymond's pale face.
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#4. Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
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#5. Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.
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#6. Lymond said, 'Have I been talking?'
'We all have, in nightmares. But yours have not been about the sea.
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#7. Lymond, released, flung his head back and, viewing his winnings, gave them solemn dispensation to descend for the space of the dance. He asked for and obtained some chalk, and set to marking his and Mat's property where the cross was most obvious and the whim most appreciated.
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#8. It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
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#9. You have not yet discovered what happens to Russians at sea.'
'The same thing, I suppose, that happens to Englishmen,' Chancellor said. 'Scots, I take it, are immune.'
'To sarcasm, yes,' Lymond said.
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#10. I do not ask,' said Dee. 'You note I do not ask - but I would swear, by all I have learned, that you are Scorpio.'
'With the sting in the tail?' Lymond said. 'You are probably right.
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#11. Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.
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#12. Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone.
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#13. I," said Lymond, in the voice unmistakably his which honeyed his most lethal thoughts, "I am a narwhal looking for my virgin. I have sucked up the sea like Charybdis and failing other entertainment will spew it three times daily, for a fee.
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#14. Oh, Marigold!" Lymond spoke plaintively. "A silken tongue, a heart of cruelty. Don't berate us. We're only poor scoundrels - vagabonds - scraps of society; unlettered and untaught.
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#15. Good God, here am I with stockings in either hand, panting towards restitution. I merely require you to keep my soul out of the general conversation.'
'And your brother's soul?' said James Stewart. He was drawling again.
'I understood,' said Lymond, 'that you had that in hand.
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#16. Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.'
'Thank you,' said Lymond.
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#17. Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.'
'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
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#18. Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said.
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#19. Gardington was made over to me once, by the Crown. It's one of their standard good-conduct prizes for espionage.'
Philippa said, rather blankly, 'I thought you were spying at that time for Scotland.'
'Well, I wasn't spying for England,' Lymond said.
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#20. Why not,' said Gaultier viciously, 'play chess?'
It silenced Lymond. His head went back as if he had been struck, the indrawn air caught in his throat. He said nothing more.
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#21. We'll do it,' said Will Scott comfortably, shouting over the tumult. 'If it's no more than an hour, we'll do it.'
'Christ, I believe you're sorry, you flaming maniac,' said Lymond. 'Don't I keep telling you that this is bloody childishness, and don't you keep agreeing?
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#22. But you do not know me,' Lymond said. 'Whereas I know you exceedingly well. You should be glad. I may well find it tedious; but you should have an extremely interesting journey.
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#23. She rose. 'You mean,' Catherine d'Albon said, 'I have agreed to marry a libertine?'
'Everyone marries libertines,' Lymond said comfortably, rising and taking her elbow. 'But not everyone knows it beforehand.
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#24. It was hard to say therefore why he did not go below, and rally his brother, and encourage him to let the past fade, and look forward to what lay before him. Unless, in his heart of hearts he recognized as Lymond did that what lay around him were shut gates; and what lay before him was nothing.
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#25. To save our friends' nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust.
-Francis Crawford of Lymond
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#26. What is your principal characteristic, would you say?'
'Treacherousness,' said Danny, gloriously.
'That,' said Lymond pleasantly, 'is everyone's principal characteristic.
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#27. Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.
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#28. I have many fears,' Lymond said. 'But death is not one of them.
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#29. Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
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#30. And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?'
'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond.
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#31. Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?
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#32. Will he?" said Lymond. "Will you, Marigold?"
Brilliant, youthful face confronted restless one.
A little, malicious smile crossed the Master's face.
"Oh, no, he won't," said Lymond confidently. "He's going to be a naughty, naughty rogue like you and me.
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#33. I have fallen out of the habit of talking to brothers,' Lymond said.
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#34. I wish,' said Lymond, 'it would try a major key sometimes.'
'Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature.
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#35. I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.'
'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.
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#36. I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness.
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