212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

Greed and envy took from a man’s heart everything but – well, greed and envy.

Burden thought irrelevantly that Wendy Williams must be attracted by bald men, first Rodney with his exaggerated forehead, naked as an apple, then this pebble-head.

I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.

She didn’t really know London, only lived in it.

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

It’s living – a broad spectrum of living – that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.

There are only two periods in a woman’s life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.