307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

It would not be out of order to remark here that a chemist's work is never done. Those choosing it asa profession ought to know at the outset that most of their lives will be spent washing up.

Feely, it seemed, was, as Sherlock Holmes once called Dr. Watson, "the one fixed point in a changing world." Throughout the events of the past few days, Feely had somehow managed to remain her same unpleasant self.Could it be that goodness wanes and waxes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?

Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.

Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.