Philip Kerr Quotes

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And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

Philip Kerr
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

Philip Kerr
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

Philip Kerr
To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

Philip Kerr
The living always get over the dead. That's what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they'd only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.

Philip Kerr
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Philip Kerr
When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

Philip Kerr
A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

Philip Kerr
Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

Philip Kerr
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

Philip Kerr
The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.

Philip Kerr
Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.

Philip Kerr