Marble Hall Murders Quotes

“Nothing is worth more than today.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“There was something about the ritual, the formality of it all, that made me feel uneasy. It was like having dinner in a lepers' colony where nobody is allowed to mention the disease.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“make them his own. His main reason was ideological. Take a nation’s art and you take its soul – something Napoleon had already figured out. The Louvre is full of German treasures the emperor snatched in his time, and now it was”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“twisted”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“champagne and canapés”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“grandmother,”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“The wound hurt much more after it was dressed, but that was a good sign, the nurse said cheerfully. There’s no healing without a little pain.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“The detective has no escape. Without evil, there is no reason for him to exist.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“I must tell you, Frédéric, that I am at peace with my life and the leaving of it. Je suis fatigué. I have been tired for a long time.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“would have preferred to go on my own, but I had to know more and when he’d suggested coming with me, I hadn’t complained. I’d turned into Alice down the rabbit hole, but instead of white rabbits and playing cards, I’d been sucked into a nightmare landscape – more Hieronymus Bosch than Lewis Carroll.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“She may not have been a racist but she was a dreadful woman and we had to make sure that the public never found out.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“With Eliot Crace and Atticus Pünd both out of my life, I suddenly felt very alone. Was this the horrible truth about my life? That if you took away work, there would be nothing”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“How can you hate someone who is loved by every single person on the planet? How can you have any life of your own when your very name is defined by her genius and everything you do will be compared to it?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“So far, everything you’ve said about it has been completely unconstructive. You didn’t like the title. You didn’t like the opening. You didn’t like the setting.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“It’s what makes a murder mystery unique in the world of popular fiction. It may seem brilliant, but an awful lot depends on the last chapter. Only when you get there do you find out if the book was worth reading to begin with.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“Art thefts are definitely what they are, Mr Pünd, and you could add that Elmer Waysmith and his partner in Switzerland are complicit in war crimes.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“Could Miriam really have been the horror he had described? How could she possibly have created the world’s most lovable family when she’d been so hateful to her own?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“nine bedrooms, a dining room, a breakfast room, a library, a conservatory and a ballroom – not to mention the coach house, stables, tennis court, swimming pool, lodge house and”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“Wealth is a great blessing, but it is my opinion that it can be destructive, if placed in the wrong hands.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“This is the South of France, not Shanghai. The only thing that’s criminal round here are the restaurant prices!”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“When a woman approaches a well-known detective and asks for him to investigate and then, just a few days later, is found murdered, of course it’s important,’ Voltaire”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“We have been married for six years now and he has become my best friend and confidant: someone in whom I have complete trust.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“He had all the charm and self-confidence that comes with a private education and a wealthy upbringing, although, unfortunately, they had arrived with a measure of arrogance too.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders

“The great joy of fiction is that no matter how problematic the journey, the resolution is somehow inevitable.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Marble Hall Murders