Quotes by : Dorothy Dunnett

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to....

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times....

I am in love-desire, and unless you take me now, I shall fall in pieces...but I do not think I can be....

My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font....

Words is but wind but dunts is the devil

And then his true courtship of her had its beginning; and to the worship of his body, he joined the fairest....

At the edge of the still, dark pool that was the sea, at the brimming edge of freedom where no boat was....

And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes.....

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped....

Only eight months had gone since Henry VIII of England had been suspended in death, there to lie like....

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative....