Parker Pyne Investigates Quotes
"I won’t stand it,’ said Mrs Packington. ‘I won’t stand it!’"
"Anger faded; grief came back. Tears came into Mrs Packington’s eyes and rolled slowly down her middle-aged cheeks."
"‘I’m so miserable,’ said Mrs Packington. ‘I’ve always been a good wife to George.’"
"‘Why, therefore, should he not enjoy a pure friendship with this young lady, and be able to bring a little brightness, a little pleasure, into her dull existence? Poor child, she has so little fun.’"
"‘Oh,’ cried Freda. ‘And it’s all my fault. I got you into this.’"
"‘Oh, Reggie, you can’t want to break my heart! Only come back! I’ll not say a word about this.’"
"‘The thing is–what to do with the precious document,’ said Wilbraham."
"‘The great thing is to be happy, isn’t it? I remember your saying so one morning at breakfast, about ten days ago.’"
"‘A woman tears a passion to pieces and gets no good from it, but a romance can be laid up in lavender and looked at all through the long years to come.’"
"It's the wish to kill that counts–the mere instrument doesn't matter. Something can always be found."
"The only way she is going to get any kick out of her life with you is to believe that she has reformed a rake."
"No woman likes to feel she’s taken on too soft a job."
"What is truth? In my experience, it is usually the thing that upsets the apple cart!"
"It is a fundamental axiom of married life that you must lie to a woman. She likes it!"
"It's easy to miss this. You can hardly see the wound. A quick stab with a small sharp instrument and death would be instantaneous. The victim wouldn’t even cry out."
"You mustn’t judge by appearances. A little additional–er–embonpoint–is easily managed and has a remarkably ageing effect."
"I am going to Shiraz. And the sheer music of the names enchanted him so much as he said them that he repeated them. Teheran. Ispahan. Shiraz."
"It’s bug powder. Do you think you could explain it to them?"
"If a woman has to choose between a mug and a Don Juan, she will choose Don Juan every time."
"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"I can resist everything except temptation."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated."
"No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."
"It isn't healthy for a young man to be interested in serious subjects. He ought to be making an idiot of himself over one girl after another."
"You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real–significant. You see it as a whole."
"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living."
"You must save him. We must save him. It's breaking my heart!"
"I’ve known seven marriages at least, entirely wrecked, because the husband liked sitting up till midnight and the wife fell asleep at half past nine and vice versa."
"Nobody’s life can be ruined except by themselves."
"You haven’t given him much chance to admire a girl, have you?"
"It's a pity that everybody can't be happy."
"I never joke on professional matters, my dear sir. It would occasion distrust in my clients."
"Classification, the classification of criminal types–it interests me."