Saint V. Scotland Yard Quotes

“the Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard

“The following year, Leslie married an American, Barbara Meyer, who’d accompanied him to Tenerife. In early 1938, Charteris and his new bride set off in a trailer of his own design and spent eighteen months travelling round America and Canada.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard

“All of which has not a little to do with 85, Vandemeer Avenue, Hampstead. Down this”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard

“suits of Anderson and Sheppard, the shirts of Harman, the shoes of Lobb, and self-refrigerating conscience can achieve.”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard

“Mallaby Road, Harrow, as the Saint discovered, was one of those jolly roads in which ladies and gentlemen live. Lords and ladies may be found in such places as Mayfair, Monte Carlo, and St Moritz; men and women may be found almost anywhere; but Ladies and Gentlemen blossom in their full beauty only in such places as Mallaby Road,”
― Leslie Charteris, The Saint versus Scotland Yard