110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

Dot had discovered in herself a keen interest in diligent research of nice calm paper records, which never wept or ran away or turned nasty.

The butterfly danced on the flower.

One can look at a plumber, a labourer, and say without a great sense of irony, ‘He is a man, capable of the same heroism as Admiral Nelson or Saint Francis of Assisi.’ But no one looks at a woman and says, ‘She is a woman, she is capable of the same heroism as Lady Godiva or Anne Askew.’ Our heroines are separated from us. So instead of trying to make Man accept us as daughters of heroism, we must raise all women to the level of heroines.

The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne’s virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.

His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.

I always like cases when the victim’s been practically begging to be killed. It means I don’t have to be sorry for him.

You’ve been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets,” she remarked amiably. “It’s really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.

Don’t be silly, Phryne, I’m an – ’ ‘Invert?’ said Phryne. ‘Of course you are.’ She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. ‘And that means,’ John persisted, ‘that I am a sinner.’ ‘Rubbish,’ said Phryne sharply. ‘No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn’t care a fig.

It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.