Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.