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Kerry Greenwood quotes: I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read. I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged. Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place. She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Padre always told me me language was sulphurous. Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does. I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back. I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Sleeping children gained weight according to the depth of their sleep. Sleeping children gained weight according to the depth of their sleep.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think. First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish. It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed. The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23. Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status. Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: We learn love from the people who love us. We learn love from the people who love us.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this. One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: The difficulty, my asclepid, is not to govern people, but to make them govern themselves, The difficulty, my asclepid, is not to govern people, but to make them govern themselves,
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare. I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else. She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time. In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave. If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key. He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth? And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?
Kerry Greenwood quotes: They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one - you'd swear he had been hitting the They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one - you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers. It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment. No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus, One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus,
Kerry Greenwood quotes: She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers. She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death. I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: women as a sex and particularly women as a sex and particularly
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice. Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it. My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: A young man in one's hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance. A young man in one's hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I liked the Ballarat train as a child. I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief. The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols. Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical. He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: You know how I feel about pretty boys - there aren't enough of them in the world as it is - we can't have people wantonly removing them. You know how I feel about pretty boys - there aren't enough of them in the world as it is - we can't have people wantonly removing them.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day. It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians. I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not. Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: With all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade. With all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats. This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter."That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter. The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter.
"That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy. Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore. This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on. Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him. I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made. Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't. Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it. Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: She dropped on his chest with both knees and vengefully banged his head on the floor, once to knock him out and twice because it made her feel better. She dropped on his chest with both knees and vengefully banged his head on the floor, once to knock him out and twice because it made her feel better.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach. Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten? Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes. I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor. I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again. Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen. I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one. I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Unanswered questions make my head itch. Unanswered questions make my head itch.
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!
Kerry Greenwood quotes: Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny

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