7 Quotes by Michael Pearce

Does that mean the French are getting in on the act?""Actually, they were in on the act before we got here. That's why so much French is spoken. Their legal system, for instance, is based on the Napoleonic Code.""You want to watch that. They could take advantage of that. You want to get them out.""In fact, we did get them out. That's why we're here.

Look, Malia, I know your theory. But you can’t go round putting people’s backs up!’ ‘I certainly wouldn’t wish to do that!’ said Dr Malia. ‘Well, it annoys people, you know.’ ‘I’m sorry about that. I try not to get in the way.’ ‘Well, maybe, but – It’s just that you’re always creeping around.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

She thinks they’re just incompetence. But, then, she thinks that most things that go wrong are just incompetence.

There were cats lying in the way but they did not move. Cats rarely moved for people in Egypt. They had to step round them. The cats merely lay there and watched them.

That’s the mark of a good office. The people who do the work get on with it without bothering to tell the boss.

The shop signs were in English. The beer was English. The post boxes were the traditional English red ones. If you had been transported here by magic carpet overnight, when you woke up in the morning you would not have known you were not in England. Except for the Malti. Which you didn’t hear. And which came.