13 Quotes by Edmund Crispin

At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.

Well, my dear fellow, if you say so. But who is the Botticelli murderer?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘But you must know by now, my dear fellow,’ said the Major plaintively. ‘We’re practically at the end of the book.’ All.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility...

Intellect stood aside and informed him of this fact.