The Cater Street Hangman Quotes

“Was a great enemy as much a part of a man’s life as a great friend? Surely it must be. It must be the cross thread in the fabric of emotions.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“There is nothing in the world more immoral than pleasure in the pain and misfortune of others!” “You”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Why is it that one does not tell people things while there is time? One lets such trivial things matter.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“I’ve been wondering how much of a person is on the surface, how much we really know about anyone at all. We don’t really know very much about each other, never mind those with whom we have only an acquaintanceship.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“It matters to me. I don’t want to be second best?” There was a lift in his voice making it a question. Very slowly she looked up at him. At first she was a little afraid, embarrassed by the power of feeling in his face, and by the depth and the sweetness of her own feeling. Then she stopped hiding, let go of pretence. “You are not second best,” she said clearly. She put up her fingers and touched his cheek, at first shyly. “Dominic was only a dream. I’m awake now, and you are the first best.” He reached up and took hold of her hand, keeping it to his face, his lips.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Because I don’t believe in monsters,” she said frankly. “Evil men, certainly, and madness, but not monsters.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“I believe morality is universal. Circumstances may alter the degree of blame, but not that an act is wrong.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Siempre he dicho que no se puede saber qué maldades se ocultan tras el rostro cordial con que se presenta la mayoría de la gente. Algunos con aspecto de santos son verdaderos diablos.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Because being in love with someone is not the same as knowing them,”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“That you have one set of rules for yourselves, and another for us,”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“I do not always observe the rules of society, but I am quite aware of what they are!”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“After all, he was a mere policeman and in the house of those considerably superior to him socially.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Yes, I was surprised about her myself. I had always considered her to be proper enough, if somewhat light-headed. It shows how one can be deceived.” “Because she was killed?” Caroline said with a lift of amazement in her voice. “Precisely.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“You’re a dreamer, Charlotte. There is no man who won’t make you wretched some time or other. I think George will have more to compensate for it than most, and I mean to marry him. I won’t allow you to prevent me.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“And Charlotte, she knew, would be no rival, because Charlotte always spoilt any visual effect she might have made as soon as she opened her mouth! Why did Charlotte always have to say what she thought, instead of what she certainly had enough wit to know people wished?”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“A woman alone is subject to temptations of the flesh, to lightmindedness and entertainments that by their very shallowness tend to pervert the nature.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“It is not good for a woman to be alone,” the vicar said grimly. He had a large, squarish face with a strong, thin mouth and heavy nose. He must have been quite fine as a young man. Charlotte was ashamed of how deeply she disliked him. One should not feel that way about a man of the Church. “It leaves her vulnerable to all kinds of dangers,” he went on.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Would it always be like this? Endless days of needlework, painting, house chores and skills, teas, Papa and Dominic coming home? What did other people do? They married and raised children, ran houses. Of course the poor worked, and society went to parties, rode in the park or in coaches, and presumably had families as well?”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“Charlotte believed that the truth lay between, that having satisfied the requirements of family in particular and society at large by marrying once, she now had no desire to commit herself again unless it were for genuine affection—which apparently had not yet occurred.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“the truth the less able you were to cope with it when it finally broke through all the barriers, like a dammed river, and carried away the careful structure of your life with it.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“She had always disliked him, and by the end of this morning she hated him with a vehemence that depressed and frightened her.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“till she found herself saying the words and singing the responses like a parrot.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“no man liked an argumentative woman—”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“It was embarrassing to be obliged to watch grief one cannot help.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman

“An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.”
― Anne Perry, The Cater Street Hangman