Quotes by : Rosemary Sutcliff

As I said before, I took to miniature painting without a completely whole heart, on the advice of my....

But against sandfly fever one could be inoculated, and I have another, hideously vivid picture of a great....

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself,....

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

Jean and I had, as I think a great many best friends have, a secret make-believe world of our own. We....

I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because....

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but....

As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads....

My mother was the perfect Spartan mother. I have always been able to imagine her telling her sons to....