Quote(s) of the Day(s)

I seem to have gotten into the habit of doing two days at a time. Here we go again....

Thursday's Quote:

The subject for the week-long symposium had appealed to him: "The Social Role of the Church in the Modern World." It had presented, it seemed to him, unlimited opportunities for dressing up truisms to look like paradoxes, as well as the chance make some agreeably sly references to the present Archbishop of Canterbury.

Blood Brotherhood (p. 8)

by Robert Barnard

Friday's Quote:

But I've never had any difficulty in believing animals can go to heaven I've always found it much more difficult to believe human begins go there.

Woman on the train

Blood Brotherhood (p. 10)

by Robert Barnard

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Tuesday's Quote:

I knew how I felt at parties. The worst thing was to get caught standing alone; it seemed to prove that you weren't worth talking to.

The Girl's Guide to Hunting & Fishing (pp. 41-2)

by Melissa Bank

Wednesday's Quote:

It occurred to me that the quite in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

The Girl's Guide to Hunting & Fishing (p. 175)

by Melissa Bank

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Sunday's Quote:

Things come suitable to the time. Childbirth. An' bein' in love. An' death. You can't know 'em till you come to them. No use guessing and dreading.

National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

Monday's Quote:

It occurred to me that everything was more complicated than I thought.

The Girl's Guide to Hunting & Fishing (p. 30)

by Melissa Bank

Quote It! For Christmas

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has an awesome Saturday meme called Quote It! that I just can't resist participating in. To join us in the celebration of quotes, click on the meme link.

Here's the Christmas edition of Quote It!:

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another.
The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.

by Emily Matthews


Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

by Calvin Coolidge

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

by Roy L Smith

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Thursday's Quote:

What man is strong enough to resist the possibility of hope?

The Locked Room

by Paul Auster

Friday's Quote:

For Christmas Eve....

Think freely. Smile often.

Rediscover old friends. Make new ones.

Tell those you love that you do.

Dream. Hope. Grow. Give. Give in.

Pick some daisies. Share them.

Keep a promise. Laugh heartily.

Sing. Dance. Reach out. Let someone in.

Hug a child. Kiss.

Slow down. Hold a hand.

See a sunrise. Listen to the rain.

Trust life. Share faith. Enjoy.

Make some mistakes. Learn from them.

Love everyone. Explore the unknown.

Celebrate life and love.

from a Christmas card

Quote of the Day

Jerry looked at his big, gentle author, wondered momentarily where in him dwelt the knowledge, the somber awareness of mankind's troubled life, which were reflected in Look Away, Stranger. But he had wondered much the same about many authors, and found speculation idle. They hid themselves, by intent or accident, behind many facades; they seldom looked, and often did not talk, like authors.

The Long Skeleton (p 37)
by Frances & Richard Lockridge

Quote of the Day

All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Quote of the Day

Anne did not wish for more of such looks and speeches. His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Quote of the Day

Time may help him to a decision; it can be a great decider.

Last of the Old Guard (p. 83)

by Louis Auchincloss

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but there is an awesome meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! and I can't resist linking up every Saturday. Here's the scoop from Freda:

Welcome to Quote it! Please feel free to grab the button and create your own post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song, just tell us who it is. Anonymous is welcome too.

And my quote for today with a link-up to Freda's Voice:

His mind was always fertile with new ideas; he was never impeded by the hurdle of long-established and respected objections. Sitting quietly at the end of a conference table, pale, seemingly detached, black-garbed, always without any papers before him, he would appear to be only half listening to lengthy expositions until he would suddenly nod and murmur, "Have you ever thought about it this way?"

Last of the Old Guard (pp. 31-2)

by Louis Auchincloss

Quote of the Day

You're an aristocrat....I mean a real aristocrat. A man who's so sure of what he is that he doesn't feel inferior or superior to any other man. He is what he is, and not in relation to anyone else.

Last of the Old Guard (p.23)

by Louis Auchincloss

Quote of the Day

It was there that I learned to live comfortably with things in which I didn't happen to believe....I learned to take advantage of the total lack of interest of people in ideas you don't express even if they suspect you of harboring them.

Last of the Old Guard (p. 8)

by Louis Auchincloss

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Running behind again....

Tuesday's Quote:

...if she was aware that young men did things of which she could hardly approve, she had no complaint as long as they were kept out of sight. Appearance was all the reality a lady needed. She knew when not to ask questions.

Last of the Old Guard (p. 4)
by Louis Auchincloss

Wednesday's Quote:

...this vision enabled me to perceive the wide discrepancy between my immediate environment as my parents' social set saw it and as it appeared to me....But what I very importantly also perceived was that nobody wanted the general view corrected, even those who suspected its validity. It was sanctified by universal acceptance. People like it that way.

Last of the Old Guard (p. 8)

by Louis Auchincloss

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Sunday's Quote:

People will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use that is. No plot.

The Handmaid's Tale (p. 279)

by Margaret Atwood

And the Quote for Today:

It was the purpose in life of all older people to thwart me. They were devoted to nothing else.

The Blind Assassin (p. 181)

by Margaret Atwood

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but there is an awesome meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! and I can't resist linking up every Saturday. Here's the scoop from Freda:

Welcome to Quote It! Please feel free to grab the button and create your post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song, just tell us who it is. Anonymous is welcome too.

And my quote for today with a link-up to Freda's Voice:

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The Handmaid's Tale (p. 74)

by Margaret Atwood

Quote of the Day

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underestimate it.

The Handmaid's Tale (p. 33)
by Margaret Atwood.

Quote of the Day

Nobody's heart is perfect.

The Handmaid's Tale (p. 29)
by Margaret Atwood

Quote of the Day

How harmful over-specialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

Hari Selden

Prelude to Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day

'Tis not the noisiest things that announces the direst calamities. The awful is often voiceless.

Naked Truth & Veiled Allusions
by Minna Thomas Antrim
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Quote of the Day

...it is always a little difficult for me to laugh freely at the follies of mankind. If I look closely, I find I share them all.

In Memory Yet Green (p. 27)

by Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day

Amnesia: the condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.

The Dictionary According to Mommy
by Joyce Armor
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Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but there is an awesome meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! and I can't resist linking up every Saturday. Here's the scoop from Freda:

Welcome to Quote It! Please feel free to grab the button and create your post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song, just tell us who it is. Anonymous is welcome too.

Here's today's quote with a link-up to Freda's Voice:

It's been a very complicated business. Even now I can't explain every feature of it. I don't expect to. Hercule Poroit always says that when trying to solve a mystery, any theory you evolve must explain each isolated fact and happening: they've al got to fit into a harmonious pattern with no loose ends. Of course, I'm not in the same class as him--though they do say I look a bit like him. But as long as I can explain the main outline of the crime and provide proof of guilt, I'm happy. I'm not an ambitions man.

Inspector Wilkins

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 194)

by James Anderson

Quote of the Day

LGS: I want to make a confession.

GD: Splendid. To the murders, the robbery, or all three?

LGS: Just to withholding information.

GD: I see. Will it clarify the problems or cloud them still further? Because if the latter, I'm not at all sure I'm strong enough to take it.

Lady Geraldine Saunders, Giles Deveraux

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 165)

by James Anderson

Quote of the Day

This strange idea that a reasonably intelligent person can't carry out a perfectly straight-forward task just because he or she doesn't do it for a living is beyond me.

Jane Clifton

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 162)

by James Anderson

Quote of the Day

...you're much more likely to get people's cooperation if you take them into your confidence.

Inspector Wilkins

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 156)

by James Anderson

Quote of the Day

IW: And, Jack, as soon as it's light, you and Cockerill take a look round outside.

JL: What for, sir?

IW: Oh. Well, footprints chiefly, I suppose. But anything out of the ordinary. Detect, man, detect!

Inspector Wilkins, Jack Leather

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 125)

by James Anderson

Quote of the Day

...first, my lord, I'd like to have a word with the rest of your guests and particularly with Mr. and Mrs. Peabody. It won't serve any really useful purpose, but I find it makes people feel better if they talk to the officer in charge of the case. Perhaps I can cheer them up a bit--convince them we're on the ball, as they put it. But then, Americans are always supposed to think English policemen are wonderful anyway aren't they.

Inspector Wilkins

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p. 123)

by James Anderson

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but there is an awesome meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! and I can't resist joining up every Saturday. Here's the scoop from Freda:

Welcome to Quote It! Please feel free to grab the button and create your own post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song. Just tell us who it is. Anonymous is welcome too.

So, here's today's quote with a link-up to Freda's Voice:

...don't expect me to solve anything. I'm not sanguine, not sanguine at all.

Inspector Wilkins

The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy (p 122)

by James Anderson

Quotes of the Week

Yow. I've really fallen down on the job this week. Blame it on the holidays. Here's my catch-up post for the laste several days:


Tuesday's Quote (Nov 23):


After a trying day at the office it is always a mistake to start an argument before you've had at least one drink.


She Shall Have Murder (p. 27)
by Delano Ames




Wednesday's Quote (Nov 24):


An amateur detective can only afford to behave like a gentleman in his spare time.


Dagobert Brown
She Shall Have Murder (p. 176)
by Delano Ames




Thursday's Quote (Nov 25):


D: They're good enough children and they have at least one virtue.
C: Indeed they have not, not one. It is a great disappointment.
D: They are none of them suffering from the distressing delusion that they are express trains.
C: That is something to be thankful for, certainly. But no positive good replaces the train. The virtue is negative.
MC: So many virtues are.


Dr. Davie; Dr. Courtney; Mrs. Courtney
Death's Bright Dart (pp. 15-6)
by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley




Friday's Quote (Nov 26):


Your mind seems to jump around in the most unregulated way, Jane.


Dagobert Brown
She Shall Have Murder (p. 178)
by Delano Ames

Quote of the Day

We are nameless. In each hand we hold a story. Between them, between the right story and what's left, our hearts are the wedge. You know this is true.

The Last Legends of Earth (p. 8)

by A. A. Alatansio

Quote of the Day

Mourning is not forgetting....It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the knot. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But process is like all human births--painful, long, and dangerous.

The Tiger in Smoke (pp. 41-2)

by Margery Allingham

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but there is an awesome meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! and I couldn't resist joining up every Saturday. Here's the scoop:

Welcome to Quote It! Please feel free to grab the button and create your own post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whomever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song. Just tell us who it is. Anonymous is welcome too. So, here's today's quote with a link-up to Freda's Voice:

It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye-to-eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously became friends and were proud of the other's dissimilarity to himself.

The Tiger in Smoke (p. 41)

by Margery Allingham

Quote of the Day

I am perfectly capable of being shocking without Margaret's assistance.

Emily Aston

And Only to Deceive (p. 8)

by Tasha Alexander

Quote of the Day

AC: I suppose what other people think matters?
GB: Of course it matters. It becomes the truth. What everybody thinks is the truth.

Albert Campion, Gina Brande
Flowers for the Judge (p. 135)
by Margery Allingham


[And can I just say that is one bizarre cover? I couldn't resist putting it up, though.]

Quote of the Day

I am not one of those intellectual sleuths, I am afraid. My mind does not work like an adding machine, taking the facts neatly one by one and doing the work as it goes along. I am more like the bloke with the sack and spiked sticks. I collect all the odds and ends I can see and turn out the bag at the lunch hour.

Albert Campion about self
The Case of the Late Pig (p. 33)
by Margery Allingham

Quotes of Today & Yesterday

Here I am...behind again. So, I've got quotes for both Monday and Tuesday.

Monday's Quote:

I had always wondered why people want to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

never have your dog stuffed (and other things I've learned) [p. 169]

by Alan Alda

Tuesday's Quote:

I never faint. Fainting is the result of affectation or too-tight stays. I will succumb to neither.

And Only to Deceive (p.3)

by Tasha Alexander

Quote of the Day

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues. Like so much of what I learned in the theater, this turned out to be how life works too.

never have your dog stuffed (and other things I've learned) [p. 37]

by Alan Alda

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but I recently discovered this Saturday meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! Here's the scoop:

Welcome to Quote It! Please feel free to grab the button and create your own post. Add as many quotes as you wish, from whom ever you wish. It can even be lyrics to a song. Just tell us who it is. Anonymous welcome too. So, here's today's quote with a link up to Freda's Voice:



It is about as easy to describe Whippet as it is to describe water or a sound in the night. Vagueness is not so much his characteristic as his entity. I don't know what he looks like, except that presumably he has a face, since it would be an omission I should have been certain to observe.

The Case of the Late Pig (p. 9)
by Margery Allingham

Quote of the Day

My father was a little disappointed that I would put so much effort into my obsession and not his. "If I had aked you to work that hard, you wouldn't have done it," he said. Well, sure. Other people's obsessions are boring.

never have your dog stuffed (and other things I've learned) [p. 37]

by Alan Alda

Quote of the Day

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

Maurice Treherne
The Abbot's Ghost
by Louisa May Alcott

Quote of the Day

"There'll have been a reason," murmured Sloan. That was one thing experience had taught him. There was a reason behind most human actions. Not necessarily sound, of course, but a reason all the same.

The Stately Home Murder (p. 55)
by Catherine Aird

Quote of the Day

"It is a truth universally acknowledged," said the doctor dryly, "that a middle-aged woman in possession of a fortune will attract people anxious to part her from it.

Some Die Eloquent

by Catherine Aird