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He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact—so he told himself—never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: “How could one so beautiful be so base?”
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Aillas groaned. “Destiny could never be so unkind.”
Suldrun said in a soft voice: “Destiny doesn’t really care.”
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
What a strange and unfamiliar world if everyone were treated according to his deserts!
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Who is seducing whom? If we are working to the same ends, there is no need for so many cross-purposes.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)
“Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”
Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)