Lindsey Davis

Quotes

• “Some men are born lucky. Others are born Marcus Didius Falco.”

• “The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.”

• “He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.”

• “Never stop to breathe the pretty flower scents. The graves of the poor still stink.”

• “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.”