"Did I ever tell you,â€™ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, â€˜that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?â€™ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymondâ€™s smile. â€˜It was a cuckoo,â€™ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out."

-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Brother Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Doors Quotes

“To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.”
“Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.”
“I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.”
“Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.”

Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.363, Oxford University Press
“Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.”
“Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.”
“You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.”

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