12 Quotes by Caroline Graham

The library at Madingley Grange was rarely used. The pristine books in their diamond-paned cases seemed never to have been sullied by anything so coarse as the perusal of the human eye.

Ah—that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

Everyone had helped themselves to something with the exception of Fred, who had helped himself to everything.

Violet had a foolish, doll-like face and primrose colored hair in lifeless curls pinned all over her head like synthetic sausages. She opened her tiny wet mouth like a sea anemone and spoke.

He felt it would hardly delight his fiancee should he reveal his true opinion, which was that his future mother-in-law's profile had struck him as so alarming that he would prefer in future to view only its muted reflection, perhaps on the surface of a tea tray.

Crashingly insensitive to the feelings of others, Troy’s own sensibilities were fragile to a fault. He was on his high horse at the merest hint of criticism.

All theatricals are round the twist, Troy,’ said Barnaby, tugging at the doors that led to the foyer. ‘If they weren’t they’d get out of the business and into real estate.

They had always seemed to Brenda antiseptically unaware that such a thing as romance existed.

Ah – that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.’ ‘What’s.