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Book: Queens' Play
Quotes of Book: Queens' Play

Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with respect to which it is not easy to cut the tree.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
this, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against fiends, bogles and your friend Mr Crawford.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Men fall short of your desire, and so you abandon men. The Crown falls short of your expectations, and you abandon the Crown. A leader with no following is an aerolite unloosed, M. Crawford, its power blinding and blistering where it wantonly falls, until it burns itself out. To take a puny man and make him great is your gift.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
To the devil with your pearldrops and your parroty manners. A filled mind and an apt wit will earn you all the respect any man has the means to deserve.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Welcome with hautbois, clarions and trumpets, noble lady. Welcome to the company of those who can be hurt.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Some love for a living,' said Lymond. 'And some kill.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Pray don't allow the shock of it all to confuse you," she said. "Popular resurrections are a tedious pastime of Francis's.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Lymond, left to speak first, said agreeably, "Quite so. I, King of Flesh, flourishing in my flowers. Come in. I am sensible, sober, and have no designs on your virtue.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
You're so damned brilliant," said Phelim. "You know everything. It's hard-set you'd be to give yourself a dull Saturday afternoon. We're all puppets-not the old Queens only, but the rest of us, man, woman and child, looking the fools of the world. {...} You have them there, on their strings, all curled tight to your littlest finger; and you little heeding as you swing them what soul you may bruise.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Mother of God, Francis Crawford of Lymond, you've made a slut of your art, have you not, as well as a whore of yourself?
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
The arrangement, temporary or otherwise, was usually public and acknowledged when at the highest level; only when it was clandestine and conducted to the injury of legitimate relatives did it become untenable in the oblique moral eye of society.
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Dorothy Dunnett _ Queens' Play
Irregular relationships among a royal family and its adherents were a matter of course; often a matter of business; and only occasionally a matter of love.
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