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

Quote of the Day

Faces were deceptive things. Until you considered them all impartially as masks you couldn't really be said to be a policeman. Then you knew you had first to get behind the mask....

A Late Phoenix (p. 28)

by Catherine Aird

Quote It! Saturday

Of course, this blog is devoted to quotes...but I just discovered a Saturday meme over at Freda's Voice called Quote It! So, here's today's quote with a link up to Freda's Voice:




Horace [was] never averse to a little bit of gossip with anyone--he collected sundry information in the same way that some men collected postage stamps.

Last Respects (p. 37)
by Catherine Aird

Quote of the Day

I needed this one for Halloween....

Horror in those days had been something weird and strange. Now she was older she knew that horror was merely something familiar gone sadly wrong...that was where true horror lay.

Last Respects (p. 20)
by Catherine Aird

Quote of the Day

...fishermen never hurried. It was a universal truth. You couldn't catch fish if you hurried. The fish didn't like it; they stopped feeding at once. Like primitive man, fish equated hurry with danger and either kept their heads down or made off. In Horace Boller's considered opinion civilised man had a lot to learn about hurrying.

Last Respects (p. 1)
by Catherine Aird

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Two for one today....

Tuesday's Quote:

...all good policemen were by nature connoisseurs of the unusual, not to say the improbable.

A Going Concern (p. 101)

by Catherine Aird

Wednesday's Quote:

While farmers lunch early and clergy at exactly one-fifteen, policmen on duty lunch not at all.

Henrietta Who? (p. 90)

by Catherine Aird

Quote of the Day

Detective Inspector Sloan made a careful note. It was perfectly true to say that you learned something new every day. It was just that he didn't usually learn it from the superintendent, that was all.

After Effects (p. 139)
by Catherine Aird

Quote(s) of the Day(s)

Missed posting last night (not sure how that happened--I know I meant to).

Friday's Quote:

The whole thing was obvious! So obvious that the only thing which prevented me from seeing the solution was the trifling fact that that it was completely impossible.

Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams



Saturday's Quote:

I'm only a country doctor, not a priest.

Dr. Aldus (whose declaration reminds me of Star Trek's Dr. McCoy)
After Effects (p. 20)
by Catherine Aird