Death of a Macho Man (Hamish Macbeth, #12)

by M.C. Beaton

“The further away a man gets from his last fight, the braver he gets.

I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I. The Battle of Otterbourne —Anon.

How odd, he thought, that jealousy should remain when love had gone.

why when things went wrong entirely through people’s own making that they should wonder what God had against them.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. —Thomas de Quincey

Never make a defence of apology before you be accused. —King Charles I

“There’s someone for everyone, or so they say.”

Do you think my mind has matured late, Or simply rotted early? —Ogden Nash

When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingring and consumptive passion. —Sir George Etherege

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near —Andrew Marvell

a truly happy man is the one who accepts and enjoys what he has?”

Think of the selfishness of keeping a man tied to you even though you know he hates your guts.