307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with our blood on the outside.

Playing the clown is not an easy task. Clowns, I have come to believe, are placed upon the earth solely to fill the needs of others, while running perilously close to “Empty” themselves.

Translation: She was perishing with nosiness.

He gave me the kind of skeptical look that I expect to get from Saint Peter on judgement day.

I don’t care’ is the last bit of baggage to be tossed overboard in a losing argument.

As Uncle Tarquin de Luce once wrote in the margin of one of his many notebooks of chemical experiments: Consider also the container.

Like it or not, there are times when you need to be alone; times when you need to be lonely; times when you need to need other people.

You’re in for it this time,′ she said. ‘Father’s been looking for you all afternoon, He’s just got off the telephone with Constable Linnet, in the village. I must say he seemed rather dissapointed to hear that they hadn’t fished your soggy little corpse out of the duck pond.

Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.