52 quotes found
“As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get ...”
“The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.”
“I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.”
“Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.”
“When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear,"He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day.”
“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1)"Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you've been asked to investigat...”
“You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.”
“Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!”
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passe...”
“Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.”
“My mouth went dry as I tried to remember all of Poppie’s tips for kissing over the years. She told me no guy wanted a girl with a mouth as wide as a guppy, who sucked his tongue with the force of a...”
