Kerry Greenwood Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?
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.
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.
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.
She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers.
I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.
A young man in one's hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.
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.
Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
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.
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.
This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.
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.
"That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.
Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.
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.
Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.
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.
Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.
Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?
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.
Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.