Death Came Softly Quotes

“wanted to pose as Sherlock Holmes cum Peter Wimsey,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Do you ever read detective stories, Chief Inspector?” “Quite often. I’m afraid the entertainment I derive from them is not quite what the author intends.” “I feel as though I’m in the middle of a rather bad detective novel,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“I have always been rather sorry for Keston, as was Crewdon himself. Keston is one of the world’s lonely fellows.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“I’m having a pleasant day,” replied Macdonald. “The world seems full of amiable people, all willing to oblige. I’ve met some conversationalists who would have given you real pleasure, including one charlady with latitudinarian views about living in sin, and a liking for a rolling pin as a corrective to laziness in poets, painters and others.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“I reckon he can live on the proceeds of that book until he shuffles off this mortal what not—” “If you want to quote, for the good Lord’s sake don’t interlard decent English with your own corrupt idioms,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Anything else you want to know?” “His address, if you can bring yourself to be so explicit,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“I’d better go back and be ready to do the sympathetic friend act. It’s a darned funny show. I seem to have tumbled into the story with the lid off.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Macdonald nodded. “Life in the country would be almighty dull if it weren’t enlivened by conjectures about infiltrating ‘foreigners,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Congratulations on your Sherlocking,”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Macdonald wondered what nature of mind had its being behind that enigmatic countenance”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Likes and dislikes are fundamentally irrational.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Emmeline Stamford met Macdonald’s eyes with a glance such as she might have bestowed on an intelligent Hindu, remote, condescending and faintly tinged with dislike.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“London, then, being a disappointment, and arduous work unpalatable, she decided to give life at Valehead a trial while she “considered things.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“The light-hearted London to which Emmeline had looked forward was no longer there, and herself, a comparatively young married woman of leisure, seemed out of the picture. Everything seemed to be a problem—food, service, even laundry, all those things which had been taken for granted so gaily in the old world, were now major problems, crises occurring afresh week after week.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly

“Eve Merrion had developed from a kindly, light-hearted girl into a mature woman of wide information and generous mind. Her sister, Emmeline, had married an officer in the Indian Army, and her environment since her marriage had crystallized all that was conventional in her. “Empire, Prestige, Dignity”—these were Emmeline’s values, described laughingly by Eve as “E.P.D.” In the narrow sphere of army life and thought, Emmeline had grown into what her sister ruefully described as “a perfect lady, perfect within the limitations of social convention.” Emmeline, at thirty-three, was a beautiful woman, still slender, her fine skin unspoiled by tropical suns, though there were wrinkles around her fine dark eyes, and something in her expression told of weariness and disillusionment.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Death Came Softly