Trust the Saint Quotes

“While the Saint, when it was necessary to play the part, could assume an aspect of proud or unprincipled poverty that would evoke a responsive twang from any normal heartstring, his usual appearance, fortunately or unfortunately, suggested a person who was so far on the other side of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth that he must have been seriously shocked when he first learned that gold spoons were not standard issue.”
― Leslie Charteris, Trust the Saint

“Moldys gallantly concealed his disappointment, although it seemed as if the luck which he thought had changed was turning dangerously coy again. “A woman like you doesn’t need jewels as much as they need her,” he said, omitting to credit the writer from whom he had swiped the line. Later”
― Leslie Charteris, Trust the Saint

“Two evenings later when he returned to Grosvenor House from the movie where he had finished the afternoon—it was a recent Iantha Lamb picture for which a billboard had caught his”
― Leslie Charteris, Trust the Saint

“It’s tough to crack the mystery of Loch Ness while under close parental supervision, but I did my best. I met monster hunter Frank Searle, but then who didn’t? He was one of those monster hunters who were really just there to talk to the coaches full of tourists. His contributions to cryptozoology were photographing vaguely monster-shaped”
― Leslie Charteris, Trust the Saint

“With his rakehell profile and impudent blue eyes, this was a statement of highly questionable validity, but she refrained from taking issue with it.”
― Leslie Charteris, Trust the Saint