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Top 25 Lindsey Davis Quotes (2025 Update)

Lindsey Davis Quote: “Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.”

1. “Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.”

2. “The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.”

3. “Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”

4. “Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.”

5. “It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Emperors may come and go, bringing more or less chaos, but the bureaucrats keep the wheels turning.”

6. “Emperors may come and go, bringing more or less chaos, but the bureaucrats keep the wheels turning.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Some men are born lucky. Others are born Marcus Didius Falco.”

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

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.”

8. “Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don’t want to lose.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail.”

9. “Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.”

10. “No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.”

11. “I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.”

12. “The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?”

13. “Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew’s money but their souls.”

14. “They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew’s money but their souls.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Dictators love to talk. It is remarkable how men who wield excessive sole power will be consistent in this: Given a captive audience, they all drone on for hours. And hours. The human brain can only concentrate for twenty minutes, ask any teacher. Dictators have rarely been despatched on a training course to learn that simple fact. Many dictators are completely untrained; tyranny comes to them naturally.”

15. “Dictators love to talk. It is remarkable how men who wield excessive sole power will be consistent in this: Given a captive audience, they all drone on for hours. And hours. The human brain can only concentrate for twenty minutes, ask any teacher. Dictators have rarely been despatched on a training course to learn that simple fact. Many dictators are completely untrained; tyranny comes to them naturally.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.”

16. “Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.”

18. “A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.”

19. “I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,’ Faustus said quietly. ‘The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.”

20. “But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,’ Faustus said quietly. ‘The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

21. “I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.”

22. “All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “We both had a tender regard for this god. Min had not only helped us learn something material; more importantly, his presence had helped Tiberius. Working in disguise at the lettuce booth, though ludicrous, had taken his mind off his troubles after the lightning strike. Min had restored my man to me.”

23. “We both had a tender regard for this god. Min had not only helped us learn something material; more importantly, his presence had helped Tiberius. Working in disguise at the lettuce booth, though ludicrous, had taken his mind off his troubles after the lightning strike. Min had restored my man to me.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “There was one good side to my male relations. Since they were married to my sisters, they had all learned to be swiftly subdued by sarcasm.”

24. “There was one good side to my male relations. Since they were married to my sisters, they had all learned to be swiftly subdued by sarcasm.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Good omens let you down. Bad ones give you something to fight against.”

25. “Good omens let you down. Bad ones give you something to fight against.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.”

26. “Falco readers are, I must say, the most strikingly nice group of people.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.”

27. “Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.”

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Lindsey Davis Quote: “Emperors came and went while bureaucracy continued, as rampant as mould.”

28. “Emperors came and went while bureaucracy continued, as rampant as mould.”

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