Colleen Mccullough

When a man steals what he regards as rightly belonging to him, he does not call it stealing. He calls it repossession.

never fight a war on your own home ground—let it be someone else’s property which suffers.

No matter how illustrious our ancestors might have been, in the end we still come to depend upon our progeny.

Rumor is one thing. A witness is quite another.

High in favor one moment, head separated from body the next.

Dead men kept the best secrets!

was someone to be used but never trusted

boredom. The one emotion no marriage could survive.

Living death is infinitely worse than real death.

Patricians obeyed no laws save those they respected.