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. - Lindsey Davis

Marcus! I thought you must have been developing other interests, but I never expected to find you with your arms locked round a fish...

'Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.'

Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch he had never cast a vote. He believed a man on a public salary should be impartial. I didn’t agree but I admired him being so stubborn in his eccentricities. Aufidius Crispus would be an unusual politician if he had allowed for such morality in the voters he was courting.