Oscar

“She helps everybody ... Wait until you are wed. She’ll do your breathing for you.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle

“Kate said, her eyes very large, ‘I find your rudeness abominable and your politeness obnoxious but my goodness, Francis Crawford, what terrifies me more than a jungle of tigers is the moment when you look worried.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle

“A trained fighting man, accustomed to hard words and hard blows and the company of men like himself, for years ruled by the self-discipline required by the world's greatest order of chivalry, Jerott had come to terms now with the fact that one man could make him feel and act like a rhinoceros in a cloud of mosquitoes.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

“I wish to drink to celebrate another proof of something I hold to be true: that what is mathematical is divine, and what is divine is mathematical, and that a transfusion of both creates the flame which is known as beauty.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle