Paragon Walk Quotes

“How little one guessed of people when one saw them only in the single dimension of a few days or weeks; how they lacked all the substance of the past. They seemed almost flat, like cardboard, with all the depth gone.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it,” she replied.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Trouble is, he wasn’t clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Death was pain and sickness, and terror of the long, blind, last step.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Success without envy was like snails without sauce—and, as any cultivated woman knew, the sauce is everything!”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“He was far too smooth, too wry and subtle to be from the great wind-and-snow-driven plains of Canada.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“The essence of strength is not in overpowering others, but in mastering oneself.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty,”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin’s dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk

“Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The”
― Anne Perry, Paragon Walk