What's So Funny? Quotes

“Well, you might not think it to look at me,” Dortmunder told him, “but I got a family crest.” “Have you?” “Yeah. And it’s got a motto on it.” “I am anxious to hear this motto.” “Quid lucrum istic mihi est.” Mr. Hemlow squinted; the red-headed hawk in flight. “I’m afraid my Latin is insufficient for that.” “What’s in it for me,” Dortmunder translated.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“If he were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a warm bath of despair. Once you’ve handed the reins over to despair, to mix a metaphor just a teeny bit, your job is done. You don’t have to sweat it any more, you’ve taken yourself out of the game. Despair is the bench, and you are warming it.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“Two days in a row with morning appointments! What kind of evil cloud was he under here, all of a sudden?”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“I Googled it all.” Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else’s business.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end.” Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“found himself marveling at how many different names there are in this world. All individual, most pronounceable. Think of that.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“understood that in the business environment it was considered a gesture of civilization to offer the guest something to drink without booze in it, and probably a hostile act to refuse it, so he said, “Seltzer, yeah, sounds good.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“it said Capitalists & Immigrants Trust. So, somewhere along the line, somebody stopped liking that name and decided C&I International would go down smoother, though mean less. Maybe the capitalists and immigrants had stopped trusting.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?

“Quid lucrum istic mihi est.”
― Donald E. Westlake, What's So Funny?