Devil In Disguise Quotes
"I’ve spent nearly three years managing a shipping firm. After all the time I’ve spent around longshoremen, nothing could shock me now."
"The excise agent says every barrel of whisky that hasn’t been delivered to the warehouse by midnight will no longer be under bond, and I’m to be paying duties on it immediately."
"You love soothing difficult people. You’re the human equivalent of table syrup."
"If someone did," he said vehemently, "I’d skin the bawfaced bastard like a grape and toss him onto a flaming dung heap."
"The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. He tempts them."
"I’ve never cared for the phrase ‘falling in love,’ as if love were a hole in the ground. It’s a choice, after all."
"Whisky is yesterday’s rain, distilled with barley into a vapor that rises like a will-o’-the-wisp, then set to bide its time in casks of good oak."
"You would no’ call me that," he said softly, "if you understood the temptation you are to me."
"The most famous clubs are White’s, Brooks’s, and Boodle’s," Catach said. "Any of those would have the means to pay a steep asking price."
"To their minds it lowers them, ye ken, and costs them the respect of common folk as well as their peers."
"For Kingston, the wages of sin have been nothing but gold and treasure."
"’Tis very grand," the steward smiled. "I count myself the luckiest chap in the world, being able to work here."
"A rare handsome whisky. I don’t believe I’ve ever tasted its equal."
"London’s no place for the like of you, young MacRae. Dinna tarry one day more than you must."
"He hadn’t yet drawn a full breath when a strong hand gripped the back of his neck to pin him against the wall."
"Enjoy it while you can, is my advice. A handsome shoe will someday be an ugly slipper."
"People should make mistakes. It builds character."
"I dinna fook like a gentleman. There’ll be no pretty words and fine manners."
"You’re safer in my arms than anywhere outside them."
"Staying there doing nothing would have been doing something."
"The only way you could ruin it," he said gently, "is by making me sneeze."
"There’s no dignity in any of this," he said, "for either of us. That’s the fun of it."
"I was ridden like a stolen horse," he claimed.
"How could it be late, when you’re the sunrise? There’s no morning sky or lark-song before you appear. No butterfly would dare unfold its wings. The day waits on you, my heart, just as the harvest waits the reaper."
"I take you for my wife. I vow I'll try every day to be the man you deserve. And I'll love none but you, my heart, until my last waking moment."
"I take you for my husband. I'll love you with all that I am and all that I have, forever."
"My heart," he said, "there's no version of me that would no' choose you as my wife. 'Tis the first thing I would do."
"If only I could divide myself into three men, each doing a job well, instead of being one man doing three jobs badly."
"Dear boy, there's nothing more exciting or important than teaching."
"A good teacher is a guide to the wonderments of life."
"This child will be magnificent. With my looks and your brains."
"You realize, Kingston, that my first grandchild has been sired by your illegitimate offspring."