The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien Quotes

“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets

“Oh, by the way, while I was having a glass of your delicious gueuze beer, I spotted a crook…”
― Georges Simenon, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien