The Prime Minister's Secret Agent Quotes

“Please,” David said, “we’re British—we adore animals. It’s children we can’t stand. That’s why we invented boarding schools. More tea?”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“The Black Dog of depression was dirty and scarred, feral and rabid. He lurked in the night, yellow eyes gleaming, waiting for a chink in the armor, a weakness, a vulnerability, a memory. And then, jaws wide and fangs sharp, he would leap.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“Eagles are not kindly birds. Some are cowardly and cruel. But the ancient race of the northern mountains were the greatest of all birds; they were proud and strong and noble-hearted.’ If that doesn’t describe the bloody Americans, I don’t know what does.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena …”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“Yanks—often licentious, and yet suspect of pleasure. It’s their beginnings, you know. No matter where they come from, they’re all affected by America’s Puritan beginnings.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“First, it will teach you how to breathe. When you breathe, you relax. When you relax, you clear the mind. Clearing the mind allows you to focus, and being”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

“are”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent