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Catched a cold and need a lot of hankies, so this is a fitting #dunnettquote for this week.

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"...Handkerchief, Sir Graham? ..."
Dorothy Dunnett: Disorderly Knights
March 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Sorry to be late with the weekly #dunnettquote.
We make it short, too.

"..."Bored?" asked Lymond.

Scott dropped the book he had not been reading. ..."

Dorothy Dunnett: The Game of Kings
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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For those wondering why the #dunnett_Advent_Calendar hasn't progressed, and there had not been a weekly #dunnettquote :
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December 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“Because one cannot clown one’s way quite through everything …”

Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense.
July 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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With World Cat Day just passed, this has to be our weekly
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"...Lucent and delicate, Drama entered, mincing like a cat..."
Dorothy Dunnett: The Game of Kings
August 11, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Our weekly #dunnettquote is an arabic idiomatic expression:

"...Tomorrow, tomorrow, when the apricots are here..."
Dorothy Dunnett: The Unicorn Hunt

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June 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Instead of our weekly #dunnettquote, today we give a hint to the Dorothy Dunnett Advent Calendar 2025

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December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It’s often commented on how artfully and realistically Dunnett describes women, our #dunnettquote of the week is an example.

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"...Outside was Margaret Erskine. Shapeless, brown-eyed, rather pale, neat as a nun in her day dress, with a single good jewel pinned to her breast, Jenny Fleming's daughter seemed quite composed; visiting wild younger sons in their sleeping quarters might have been a nightly occupation..." Dorothy Dunnett: Queens' Play
March 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This week‘s #dunnettquote is featuring Charles the Bold
The Grand Duke rode in the middle, glistening in a golden cuirass and a black velvet cloak starred with jewels whose worth, at a quick calculation amounted to a hundred thousand florins at today's rates ..."
 Dorothy Dunnett: To lie with Lions
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This week‘s #dunnettquote gives us a blackberry pie😉

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"... 'My dear, my dear,' said Kate but to herself, 'I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.' ..."

Dorothy Dunnett: Disorderly Knights
September 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Jousting and one of Felix‘ famous hats are topic of this week‘s #dunnettquote
Jousting and Felix‘ hats are topic of this week‘s #dunnettquote "...He saw Jan Adorne signalling in the doorway and thought that he would do just as well. At fifteen he was very likely too young to joust, but he must have been to the Poorterslogie often with his father. Felix waved his cup, summoning him. His sleeve, waving too, missed tipping a flask over. He had dressed really well for today, with ribbons all down his arms, and his doublet fully added under his cloak, which the tailor said right, did justice to his chest. Thinking of the crowd, he had put on a very tall hat, rather than one of his wide ones. He wished only that his collar was not buttoned quite so firmly under his chin. ..."
 Dorothy Dunnett: Niccolò Rising
January 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This week’s #dunnettquote is about secrecy:

"... 'Swamp fever', Tobie said. 'You remember. He had it in the Abruzzi.'
Julius was the fifth person he had told since he promised Nicolas to tell no one..."
Dorothy Dunnett: The Spring of the Ram
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Why not start the week with a Dunnett quote?

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Let‘s begin with a quote from

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April 8, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Our last #dunnettquote for this year is about the honest handling of important documents in the Middle Ages.
"..."Then," said Archbishop Juhel, "it so happens that I have this excellent two-hundred-year-old letter from Pope Adrien to King Salomon of Brittany conveying the insignia of authority to Festinien, his elected Archbishop of Dol. I would have brought it with me, except that the ink isn't dry." ..." Dorothy Dunnett: King Hereafter
December 30, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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In our weekly #dunnettquote Jerott wonders about the use of a spade
"... Gaultier stopped sobbing for breath and said, wheezing, ' How dare you force your way into this house and assault us?'
   'How dare you spring out at me with a spade?' said Jerott mildly,. Or were you going to work in the garden?'..." Dorothy Dunnett: Pawn in Frankincense
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The #dunnettquote of the week is about spreading bad news.
LITTLE BOATS CARRYING cherries, or cheeses, or sprats bring the world its bad news, long before the dispatch of solemn embassies. So rumours spread to the marketplace. But before even that, fast-beating pigeons and riders and swift, secret galleys make sure that the world’s leaders know what there is to know, even though they may conceal it. Thus the news of James of Lusignan’s fate crossed the Middle Sea many weeks before the black-robed ambassadors formally presented their tidings to Pope Sixtus and the Republic of Venice, or the Knights of Rhodes and the late King’s half-sister Carlotta, or the Sultan Qayt Bey in Cairo; and long before an arrow borne by a racing dromedary reached a distant Persian battlefield and changed the fortunes of a prince.“ Dorothy Dunnett: To Lie with Lions
September 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The #dunnettquote for this week makes a visit in the neighborhood:
„The Culters stayed at home until the third Sunday in December; then, leaving Richard to his inevitable business, the Dowager seized a break in the weather to transport herself, Mariotta and Agnes to visit Sir Andrew Hunter’s mother. Before the gates of Ballaggan, and after they had crossed the Nith safely and dry-shod on its upper reaches, the Dowager rallied her party. “Hear me, children,” said Sybilla. “This is a naughty old woman, but she’s too old to change, and too feeble to be lectured. So speak up, keep your tempers, and remember you’ll be naughty old women yourselves, one of these days.” So they went in and, Sir Andrew being temporarily absent, were taken straight upstairs.“ Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings
August 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The weekly #dunnettquote is about pastimes.
"... They took leave of their hostess and returned to the house of Adorne, where there was nothing to do. Tobie found a book and sat, seldom turning the pages. Nicholas went briefly to his room, but reappeared to sink into a chair before the handsome Sersanders fireplace. ..." Dorothy Dunnett: Caprice and Rondo
July 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This weeks #dunnettquote is obviously seasonal.
„So Christmas, unappalled at Lord Culter’s absence, came cantily to Stirling. It was a French Christmas; a debonair Christmas full of frolic and folly; a spry, Gallic unctuous Christmas. Henry of France, at last roused to boldness and the cunning exercise of spite, had sent a small fleet to Scotland, and in it money for the Queen Dowager, and French military experts for her guidance and the better security of her fortresses. The military experts, tricked out in scent and white satin, danced like well-mannered clouds and talked in the Council Chamber of chests of money and major landings of troops waiting to come with better weather. The Government blew a sigh of relief, eyed the cut of the white satin and, flinging its armour out of the window, bawled for its valet. The Court danced. The Court played rough games and watched masques. Cardboard cumuli, joggling cautiously from ceiling to floor, emitted Spirits of Love, giggling, with siren voices half a tone sharp with nerves. Forty-two different kinds of main dishes were offered at one sitting, and even the puddings burst asunder and became sweating cherubs released from cardboard confinement and prone to emergency and fits of tears.“ Dorothy Dunnett: The Game of Kings
December 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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“He knew very well that this was why Tobie and Julius were haunting his steps. They were the watchdogs. Whatever he did with his numbers, he was not to use them to kill people he knew. A fair bargain.”

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July 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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The #dunnettquote this week is about the implications of free trade.
".. The Magdalena, floating under bare poles in a leafy anchorage in the Kyles of Bute, was a large and roomy merchantman with holds for salt and pitch and potash and wool and hides and malmsey and salt fish, and a good false bottom for contraband. ..." Dorothy Dunnett: The Disorderly Knights
May 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This week‘s #dunnettquote is telling lies about what you have done in your holidays.
„Peering from under her hood, Philippa favoured Austin Grey with a generous smile and returned to the business of supporting the lies Archie Abernethy was telling. Yes, they had just come back from Malta. Yes, Mistress Somerville had been travelling abroad with a party, including her mother’s friend, Crawford of Lymond.“ Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle
September 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Our #dunnettquote of the week is about why children and pets are not always unproblematic…
"... Two scented red heads, fresh from morning worship, hung cheek by cheek like two peonies in a garland, window-gazing at the crowds.
 Mary Queen of Scotsland spoke first, dreamingly, her face cupped in warm palms. 'I regret,' she said in English, 'that I bit your marmoset, my aunt.' ..." Dorothy Dunnett: Queens‘ Play
February 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Our weekly #dunnettquote is dining with the Knights in the Auberge de France in Birgu.
"... In search of enlightenment, Jerott Blyth attached himself with great firmness that evening to the party which went to dine, after the Council meeting broke up, in the Auberge de France. As well as Lymond, Villegagnon was there, and Graham Mallett, with Nicholas Upton, the Turopilier, refugee from non-existent English Langue.

For the sake of coolness the meal was served in the courtyard, visible through the crested doorway, its barrel arch lozenged in colour. For sixty scudi a year, the Pilier could clearly serve his knight's hunger most handsomely. ..." Dorothy Dunnett: Disorderly Knights
May 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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„For an infinitesimal space, the blue eyes were forced down by the grey. Then the slack lids were drawn back farther than Scott had ever seen them, and the full malice of Lymond’s cornflower eyes bent on his brother.“

Dorothy Dunnett: Game of Kings
May 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM