307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

Keep quiet about a toothpick in today’s butter and next thing you know you’ll be findin’ a doorknob in the cottage cheese.

True charity, I had discovered, consists in swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

The first step in gaining the upper hand is always to seize the moral high ground, and to be able to do this with no more than a single word is nothing short of genius.

Humility is a most excellent barometer,” he said, “and ought to be looked for in all those we are made to look up to.

I threw my hands up into the air and launched myself into a series of exuberant triple cartwheels. “Yaroo!” I shouted.

No sooner was I safely among the gravestones than a great feeling of warmth and calm contentment came sweeping over me. Life among the dead. This was where I was meant to be!

Foolishness in a grown man, no matter how lighthearted, is disgusting.

She consumed books like a whale eats krill.

Saving a life is not servile, no matter how it looks.