251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

Vulgarity is inversely proportionate to intelligence and facility with languages. Profuse swearing is generally associated with a low IQ, a limited vocabulary and uncontrollable hostility.

Then he’s aware.

You can’t cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

Hate makes you stupid.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets.

When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, and I’ve repeatedly preached that to him, too.

Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.

Eddie Heath had come in naked with IV needles, catheter, and dressings still in place. They.

The abuse of power, Benton says. It all comes back to that. We want to be like God. If we can’t create, we’ll destroy, and once we’ve done it, once is not enough.