Alan Bradley Quotes
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Alan Bradley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
I put a hand gently on her shoulder and held out my handkerchief. She looked at it skeptically. "It's all right," I said. "They're only grass stains.
There wasn't a schoolboy on the planet - or a man, for that matter - who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact.
Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him.
Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase
Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.
As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation
If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He'd have never would have given us cinema. Or the national gallery.
It was like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn't shake off. The bloody thing clung to life like a limpet.
I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell "So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
As Uncle Tarquin de Luce once wrote in the margin of one of his many notebooks of chemical experiments: Consider also the container.
It is not the dead who are to be feared, I thought, but rather the living. Only the living can cast you down among the dead.
Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere.
Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.
We Three Kings of Leicester Square,
Selling ladies' underwear,
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only tuppence a pair.
Selling ladies' underwear,
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only tuppence a pair.
Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.
A pillar of strength, Daffy had once remarked, was a nice way of saying someone was terminally bossy,
I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.
I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them.
'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.
'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.
Was the pie good, luv?" she asked.
I'd forgotten the pie until that moment. I took a leaf from Dr. Darby's notebook.
"Um," I said.
I'd forgotten the pie until that moment. I took a leaf from Dr. Darby's notebook.
"Um," I said.
There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?
It was the chemistry that caused this lifting of the spirits. Chemistry lifted you up out of the mud and flung you up among the stars. Except,
... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.
I have always found there to be a certain sadness about mirrors, since they double the space in a house which needs to be filled with love.
It is always better, and far more rewarding, I have observed, to have someone else feel sorry for you, than to do the job yourself.
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. At least the man had the sense to admit it.
A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.
The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there
Saint Paul on the road to Damascus might have pleaded sunstroke, for example, and the world would have been a different place.
A peculiar feeling passed over me
or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain.
or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain.
I have learned that under certain circumstances, a fib is not only permissible, but can even be an act of perfect grace.
I threw my hands up into the air and launched myself into a series of exuberant triple cartwheels. "Yaroo!" I shouted.
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.
I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction.
Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.