47 Quotes by Rhys Bowen

I will not be bullied or dictated to. I’m not a child any more, and I’m prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can.

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you’ll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. “All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we’d make a ruddy mess of it.

You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they’re all over the place.

All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

I’m teaching you how to survive in a difficult world. You can’t be under your parents’ thumb forever. You have to take charge of your own life now you’re going to be twenty-one.

They don’t hang dukes, darling. He’d be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

At last he said, “I’ve been fourteen years on the police force. I’ve learned from seasoned veterans. I’ve handled all types of criminal cases. But my wife, newly arrived from the backwoods of Ireland, manages to tie up all my unsolved cases for me with apparently no effort at all. I should just quit my job and stay home looking after the babies while you go out to work for us.

Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.