Bernie Gunther Quotes

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay. — Confucius

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught. — Philip Kerr

He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone. — Rick Perlstein

I like to be on the edge of the possible. — Jorn Utzon

The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend. — Jade Jones

I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch. — Philip Kerr

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative. — Ben Stein

The demon in me that knows there's a demon in you who can mop the floor with my raunchy butt tells me to say yes. I care. Deeply. (Ren) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar. — Philip Kerr

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. — Gregory Maguire