81 Quotes by Philip Kerr

Je ne suis pas un nazi. Je suis un Allemand. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Un Allemand est un homme qui arrive à surmonter ses pires préjugés. Un nazi, quelqu'un qui les change en lois.(Hôtel Adlon - If The Dead Rise Not)

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.

My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.

If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” heopined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic drink. It makes people sleepy and complicit. Beer just makes them argumentative. And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink a lot of wine? Roman Catholic.”“What about the Russians?” I asked. “They drink vodka.”“That’s a drink to help you find oblivion,” said Father Bandolini. “Nothingto do with God at all.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.