Rest You Merry Quotes

“Man cannot live by swine alone.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“he—I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun—”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“It was nip, tuck, and a costly speeding ticket, but he managed to each the library in time...”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“Thorkjeld Svenson was awesome enough in ordinary garb; swathed in acres of brown wool bathrobe, unshaven and red-eyed, hair twisted up into iron-gray horns at either side of his thunderous forehead, he was terrifying.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“Why should a killer stick his neck out to buy or steal a lethal compound when plenty of local windowsills offered death for the picking, even in midwinter?

Poinsettias and mistletoe, for instance...”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“There was also a handsome water-color portrait of the balaclava Buster, the work of a lady botany professor who had hoped to reach her colleague's heart through his rutabaga. Cross-pollination had not been successful. The lady married somebody else and shandy continued his comfortable bachelor's life”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“Wait a second. Are you saying you know for a positive fact how many marbles were in that dish?"

"Of course..."

"I'll tell Harry you haven't got all your marbles.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry

“De gustibus non est disputandum.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Rest You Merry