A German Requiem Quotes

“Byzantine”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“lugubrious”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“Just because your shoes pick up a bit of shit doesn’t mean you have to buy a new pair.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“I’ve not much use for games of skill,’ I said. ‘I distrust a game that relies on anything but luck. That way I needn’t blame myself if I lose. I have a tremendous capacity for self-recrimination.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“He was a well-built man, with thick dark eyebrows and a large, flourishing moustache: it looked like some rare species of marten that had escaped on to his lip from some colder, more northerly clime.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“Those who wish to be well-informed must first equip themselves with doubt.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“A country of six million people, Austria was little more than the butt-end of a very large cigar.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“He laughed like he had once taken a few classes in laughing,”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“punctiliousness.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“etiolated”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“As a matter of interest,”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“probity”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem

“to per cent I’ll see if I can find him for you.’ I”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem