Death of a Cad Quotes

“Mrs. Wellington was wearing a voluminous flannel nightgown when she answered the door. Hamish was glad Mr. Wellington had found God, because it certainly looked as if he would need to wait until he got to heaven to get his reward.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“… one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. —Saki”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“Aye, it’s an unfair world when you think of it. If that man had been a woman, he’d have been called a harlot!”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“His ears stuck out like jug handles, as if God had specially made them that way to support his bowler hat.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. – Saki”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“Blair detested the upper classes because they made him feel inferior, and the Highlanders because they lacked any inferiority complex whatsoever.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“He had been brought up in Glasgow, that city which produces some of the brightest brains in the world, along with some of the biggest chips on the shoulder.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad

“She had not yet learned the hard lesson that women who love themselves too much are rarely loved by anyone else.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Cad