The Sin Eater Quotes

“Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater

“Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater

“When a baronet is discovered behind a bush in the park with a guardsman, or a minister of the crown is caught creeping out of a country with his socks stuffed full of bank notes and a woman not his wife ten paces behind, or a public person is revealed disporting himself with a couple of tarts and a teddy bear in West Paddington, they complain to the press that the outcry is hypocritical and that everyone would like to do what they were doing if only they had the chance. They regard the law as an instrument of envy, like nationalization and death duties.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater