The Pale Criminal Quotes

“Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, you find out that they’ve always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“I'm no knight in shining armour. Just a weather-beaten man in a crumpled overcoat on a street corner with only a grey idea of something you might as well go ahead and call Morality. Sure, I'm none too scrupulous about the things that might benefit my pocket, and I could no more inspire a bunch of young thugs to do good works than I could stand up and sing a solo in the church choir. But of one thing I was sure. I was through looking at my fingernails when there were thieves in the store.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“Yes indeed, I thought, a neat piece of theatre. I was going to enjoy putting these people away. You can sometimes forgive a man who works a line, but not the ones who prey on the grief and suffering of others. That was like stealing the cushions off a pair of crutches.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“Nuremberg.’ ‘Well sir, it’s this. It has crossed my mind that someone might be trying to sew the Jews into a very nasty body-bag.’ Now the general raised an”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“Frau Lange, her chins and her dog were waiting for me on the same chaise longue, except that it had been recovered with a shade of material that was easy on the eye only if you had a piece of grit in there on which to concentrate.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“there wasn’t much to say about Klaus Hering except that he was about thirty years old, slimly built, fair-haired and, thanks in part to his necktie, getting on for tall.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal

“as great a blight on our world as a missionary landing on Tahiti with a boxful of brassieres.”
― Philip Kerr, The Pale Criminal