The Ides of April Quotes

“Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April

“The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April

“Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That’s the tragedy of life.”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April

“He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However,”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April

“By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antidote except moonbeams, and he would identify himself by etching a Greek letter onto the foreheads of all his victims as they twitched and gasped their last. The Omega Killer had been born, and it was my fault.”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April

“Mathematics is a suspicious activity. All those hypotenuse drawings must be plans for assassination attempts. Algebra is treacherous code. When did you ever meet a student of infinitesimal calculus who didn’t harbour rabid ambitions to rule the world? And anyone who tells you Archimedes was killed at the capture of Syracuse by a soldier who didn’t know who he was, is ignorant of how military forces work. There will have been a secret order: man making diagrams in the dust equals number one target.”
― Lindsey Davis, The Ides of April