90 Quotes by Donna Leon

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.

It's the Lord who is kind, Dottore. We merely do His service.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.

Though he had repeatedly asked her not to do this, she insisted on choosing a subject at the beginning of any investigation he worked on, and she was generally wrong, for she always opted for the most obvious choice.

Well, he'd gone this far, animated by nothing more noble than curiosity, he told himself as he studied the face of the man in the mirror, pushing his collar down over his neatly knotted tie. The man's mind slipped into English: The cat's got your tongue. Curiosity killed the cat. To stay in vein, the man in the mirror gave a Cheshire smile, and Brunetti left the house.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

As a musician, he was as close to perfection as a man could come. It was worth putting up with the man to be able to work with the musician.

Don't you have any desire for vengeance?" he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.