Anthony Gilbert (author) Quotes

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It's what I've always said, if we were meant to fly we'd be given wings, just like if we were meant to walk we'd have four legs.

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Caution and Conscience were the great twin brethren in his book of life, and the two warred perpetually the one against the other, so that there were premature lines round his eyes, and his mouth never dared smile for fear it gave birth to hopes that would not later be realized.

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Getting a hat is like getting a husband. It doesn't matter how decorative or smart they are if they don't suit you.

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It seems to me you need training for being idle just as much as for a profession. And being alive means more than just not being dead.

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I wonder if we shall ever make a lawyer of you. Don't you know that our first duty is to make things easy for our clients, who are always right, except when they come in conflict with ourselves?

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Rolfe was one of those men who were, to all intents and purposes, slain in the war; but most unhappily the flesh had survived.

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When people tell you a coat or dress is cut on classic lines it means it's something that isn't smart now and won't be smart ten years hence.

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Leisure's like a mirage. Lovely when it ain't there. When you are, it's a desert. Right?

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'When you try bein' cynical, Bill, it's like an elephant trying to do embroidery,' Crook informed him.

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It's odd, really, more women aren't used for private investigation work. They could go anywhere and no one would notice them.

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Men. Always trying to think for somebody else, and generally doing it wrong.

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The bridegroom... was of less importance, in the public eye, than the bridal bouquet.

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In came a large, handsome old woman with an eye about as friendly as a bull in a field.

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He didn't make light of superstition. He knew it's the first and most natural of religions.

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It's never been my experience that men part with life any more readily at eighty than they do at eighteen.

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It's the young who take chances, for whom Hope is a flag that never flies at half-mast.

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People said they wanted the truth, but what they really wanted was the segment of truth that would frank them. The whole truth was too terrible for most people to contemplate.

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Husbands are like caterpillars, they improve with keeping.

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No one's interested in virtue till it's been lost.

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The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevertheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

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There are three sorts of liars — liars, damned liars and house agents.

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