Frases de Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis es una escritora inglesa de novelas de intriga ambientadas en la antigua Roma.

✵ 21. agosto 1949

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La plata de Britania
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“Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

Lindsey Davis libro Venus in Copper

Venus in Copper
Contexto: “I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

“Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true.”

Lindsey Davis libro Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra
Contexto: The new "humour", if you can call it that, is pure malicious gossip. Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true.

“Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happiness might be a possibility”

Lindsey Davis libro Master and God

Master and God
Contexto: He was dead. No point speculating. Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happiness might be a possibility. Raise your standards. Make a decent life, Lucilla. Life is all there is. If it's only once, it must be good... He had been right. If perfection only happened once, that was better than never. Now nothing for her would ever again entail complete despair. So thank you, Gaius Vinius Clodianus, son of Marcus, thank you for your good deed, a deed that brightened somebody's dark world.

“Most cynics are witty and all clowns are cynical. Meet us on the road, and who could tell the difference?”

Lindsey Davis libro Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra
Contexto: I asked why Grumio had had to turn to lesser things.'No call. In my father or grandfather's day all I would have needed in life were my cloak and shoes, my flask and strigil, a cup and knife to take to dinner, and a small wallet for my earnings. Everyone who could find the wherewithal would eagerly ask a wandering jokesmith in.'
'Sounds just like being a vagrant philosopher!'
'A cynic,' he agreed readily. 'Exactly. Most cynics are witty and all clowns are cynical. Meet us on the road, and who could tell the difference?’
'Me, I hope! I'm a good Roman. I'd take a five-mile detour to avoid a philosopher.'</p

“There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.”

Lindsey Davis libro The Iron Hand of Mars

The Iron Hand of Mars
Contexto: Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.

“Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.”

Lindsey Davis libro Nemesis

Nemesis
Contexto: Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.

“Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.”

Lindsey Davis libro The Third Nero

The Third Nero
Contexto: “Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.”

“For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.”

Lindsey Davis libro Time to Depart

Time to Depart
Contexto: He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.

“Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind.”

Lindsey Davis libro Time to Depart

Time to Depart
Contexto: Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.

“b>Emperors must make their own rules.</b”

Lindsey Davis libro La plata de Britania

The Silver Pigs

“Communicating wit is a lonely art. It demands an independent soul.”

Lindsey Davis libro Last Act in Palmyra

Last Act in Palmyra

“Justice never paid a poor man's bills.”

Lindsey Davis libro Venus in Copper

Venus in Copper

“We are Romans. We despise thought.”

Lindsey Davis libro See Delphi and Die

See Delphi and Die

“Senator, don't let your judgement be warped by one heady moment.”

Lindsey Davis libro La plata de Britania

The Silver Pigs

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