313 quotes found
“Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.”
“In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so - which amounts to the same thing. The wo...”
“Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.”
“I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after”
“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the w...”
“I like having you around, Britt. That's the truth. I'm not leaving you. Even if you were a pain in the butt, I'd stay with you. It's the right thing to do. But it turns out I find you likable and i...”
“One learns ones mystery at the price of ones innocence.”
“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”
“No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.”
“Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolle...”
“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.”
“Here lies the body of Colonel Cornells. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.”
“Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recogn...”
“He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.”
“She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!”
“It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin”
“I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.”
“You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.”
“And you who seek to know me,know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,unless you know the Mystery:For if that which you seek,you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.”
“There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.”
