Lindsey Davis

“'How old now?''Thirty. Downhill to the dark boat across the Styx. Probably be sick over the side in Charon's ferry too…'”

“It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.”

“In my experience, men who sit in corners are the ones to watch.”

“Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.”

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

“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.”