110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.

We learn love from the people who love us.

I’m concealing a lot of things. That’s what a lady does.

I don’t like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.

Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.

Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.

So it was that Phryne acquired a skimpy costume of Fugi cotton, with fringes, in a blinding shade of pink known colloquially as ‘baby’s bottom’, a pair of near-kid boots with two-inch heels, an evening bag fringed and beaded to within an inch of complete inutility, stockings in peach, and a dreadful cloche hat with a drunken brim in electric blue plush. Her method in choosing these garments was simple. Anything at which Dot exclaimed, ‘Oh, no, Miss!’ she bought.

She was always over the horizon, chasing stars.

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one – you’d swear he had been hitting the gin.