Field Gray Quotes

“This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“you’re born alone and you die alone and the rest of the time you’re on your own.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Grey

“If you make yourself like sugar, the ants will eat you.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“It's your hypocrisy that's offensive, not your brutality. You're the worst kind of fascists. The kind that think they're liberals.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“about three or four hours it got dark and I could see the lights of the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo, twinkling on our port side. It was like staring at the ancient stars of some near galaxy that was at the same time a vision of the future in which American democracy ruled the world with a Colt in one hand and a stick of chewing gum in the other. Somewhere in the tropical darkness of that Yankee littoral thousands of men in white suits were engaged in the meaningless routines of their oceangoing, imperial service. In response to the cold imperative of new enemies and new victories they sat inside their floating, steel-gray cities of death, drinking Coca-Cola, smoking their Lucky Strikes, and preparing to free the rest of the world from its unreasonable desire to be different. Because Americans and not Germans were now the master race and Uncle Sam had replaced Hitler and Stalin as the face of the new empire.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“wondering if I should”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“against the”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray

“Hmm. That’s what I suspected, you mad bastard.”
― Philip Kerr, Field Gray