Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

I am still running behind on my usual posting. I'm hoping to get back on track soon. Meanwhile...here are quotes for last week:

Monday:

In the mind of a punter the law of probability never carried as much weight as the law of possibility.

Blood at the Bookies (p. 17)

--Simon Brett

Tuesday:

A murder's a nine-day wonder, but horse racing is forever.

Sonny Frank

Blood at the Bookies (p. 43)

--Simon Brett

Wednesday:

Brigg's Physics: If the doctor (or dentist) says that the procedure will produce a "little discomfort," it will hurt like medieval torture.

--Judge Briggs

[This is absolutely true. I have first-hand experience.]

Thursday:

It is vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jane Eyre

--Charlotte Bronte

Friday:

...the more you know about a thing, the less scary it is. And if you know all about it, you find it isn't anything to be scared of at all.

Freddy and the Ignoramus

--Walter R Brooks

Saturday:

For Freddy, like lots of other people, believed things more easily when he saw them in print than he did when he just heard them.

Freddy and the Ignoramus

--Walter R Brooks

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

I am WAY behind this time. I've done pretty well on keeping up with my blogging on my main reading blog (even though life is totally crazy at the moment), but keeping up with the quotes just hasn't been happening.

Here' s a week's worth of quotes from one of my favorite vintage mysteries:

Sunday:

Reading aloud what one has written seems to me almost the least amiable of the practices of humanity; but it is a common passion and very dangerous to thwart. I have suffered a good deal from it in my time. But I have always tried to listen with good grace. If one is going to be martyred, one may as well do it in style.

Death Under Sail (p. 19)
--C. P. Snow

Monday:

Getting up slowly [in the morning] is the chief aim of a perfect life.

Tonia Gilmour
Death Under Sail (p. 24)
--C. P. Snow

Tuesday:

If you look at it properly, detective stories are a sign of civilization. And the investigation of crime is a sign of all the good in our modern world.

Detective Sgt. Aloysius Birrell
Death Under Sail (p. 42)
--C. P. Snow

Wednesday:

A detective sergeant wildly enthusiastic over criminal investigation was strange enough, but a detective sergeant with the susceptibility of a Victorian heroine was incredible.

Death Under Sail (p. 49)
--C. P. Snow

Thursday:

We're all word-hypnotized. Philosophers and art critics and parsons and psychologists--they're all of them "Aloysius Birrells" thinking that when they've said "tempo" they've explained the universe.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 52)
--C. P. Snow

Friday:

It's curious how completely powerless almost all Englishmen are, if they're brought up against genuinely thorough rudeness. And in our absurd muddle-headed way we always estimate it as a sign of character. Dr. Johnson and the Duke of Wellington and Queen Victoria and Mr. Shaw and Mr. Snowden--we find other reasons for approving of them, but actually we're just impressed by their sheer boorishness.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 59)
--C. P. Snow

Saturday:

...being successful in life depends on two gifts, and two only. One is to know where to go for anything you want to get done; the other is to be able to get it done for you.

Finbow
Death Under Sail (p. 67)
--C. P. Snow

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

My Quotes:

Thursday:

An ounce of don't-say-it is worth a pound of didn't-mean-it.

--L. M. Boyd

Friday:

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

--Jacob M Braude

Saturday:

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

--Antonia Brenner

Quotes of the Days Feb 28, March 2 &3

Monday's Quote:

Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law and yet be worthless. He may break the law and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his own perfection.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Death of No Importance (p. 261)

--Gyles Brandreth

Tuesday's Quote:

ACD: You live and learn.

OW: And then, of course, you die and forget it all.

Arthur Conan Doyle; Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde & a Game Called Murder (p. 49)

--Gyles Brandreth

Wednesday's Quote:

There's no fool like an old fool--you can't beat experience.

--Jacob M Braude