Vintage Murder Quotes

“There are people to whom one need not show off. It’s a great comfort sometimes.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

“My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to bother about any of that.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

“What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?"

"I'm afraid to speculate," said Alleyn.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

“You have to dig deep to bury your daddy.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

“Before he had completed this thought, the peak of the mountain was flooded with thin rose colour, too austere to be theatrical, but so vivid that its beauty was painful. He felt that kind of impatience and disquietude that sudden beauty brings. He could not stand and watch the flood of warmth flow down the flanks of the mountain nor the intolerable transfiguration of the sky.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder

“The clocks in the hotel, and the clocks outside in the town, all began to strike six as he got into bed, and when the last clock had struck, the vague rumour of innumerable cockcrows rang in his head. And as he fell asleep he heard the first chatter of waking birds.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder