The One from the Other Quotes

“He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It’s only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“True decadence involves taking nothing too seriously,”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I selected a handy-looking log from a neat pile of fire-wood underneath the balcony and glanced around for a window to knock in. The piles of snow behind me muffled the noise of breaking glass nicely. Deep snow is a burglar’s best friend.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“bibulous,”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Besides, I had tasted American beer. Only a country that had once prohibited alcohol could have produced a beer that tasted like fortified mineral water.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Erzherzog Rainer,”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“He couldn’t have been more than five feet tall and yet he had the look of a creature that killed weasels with his teeth. It was as if his mother had prayed for a baby terrier and changed her mind at the last minute.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I might as well have been in Denver, Colorado. I had never been in Denver, Colorado, but I imagined it probably looked a lot like Partenkirchen. Patriotic, affected, overornamented, unfriendly in a friendly kind of way, and, ultimately, more than a little absurd.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Coming from Berlin, I rather disliked mountains, especially the Alps. They always looked sort of melted, as if someone had carelessly left them out in the sun too long.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I don’t like it one little bit. But I’m delighted to see it exhibited without any interference from people who know as little about art as I do. Looking at it is like looking inside the head of someone who disagrees with you about nearly everything. It makes me feel uncomfortable.” I shook my head sadly and sighed, “That’s democracy, I guess.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“bowdlerizing”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“He looked like a regular nine-to-five guy. That was the frightening thing about the concentration camps and the special action groups. It had been the regular guys—the lawyers, the judges, the policemen, the chicken farmers, and the stonemasons—who had done all the killing.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I took a tram north, in the direction of Schwabing. Here, nearly all of the buildings reminded me of myself, with only the housefronts standing, so that while the general appearance of the street seemed hardly impaired, everything was in reality badly damaged and burned out. It was high time I made some repairs.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I remember him making a ranting speech demanding foreign colonies for Germany. It was, perhaps, the first time any of us had heard him use the phrase “living space.” No one thought for a moment that our living space could only be created if someone else died first.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“These people are crazy. Religious fanatics.” “So are you”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“El progreso y la prosperidad son enemigos del islam más auténtico. Y”
― Philip Kerr, Unos por otros

“The essence of deception is not the lie that’s told but the truths that are told to support it.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I had tasted American beer. Only a country that had once prohibited alcohol could have produced a beer that tasted like fortified mineral water.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” he
opined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic drink. It makes people sleepy and complicit. Beer just makes them argumentative. And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink a lot of wine? Roman Catholic.”
“What about the Russians?” I asked. “They drink vodka.”
“That’s a drink to help you find oblivion,” said Father Bandolini. “Nothing
to do with God at all.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I tell you that PFC Ivanov has made a number of allegations regarding the treatment of Red”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“I’ll be honest,” I said. “I don’t like it one little bit. But I’m delighted to see it exhibited without any interference from people who know as little about art as I do. Looking at it is like looking inside the head of someone who disagrees with you about nearly everything. It makes me feel uncomfortable.” I shook my head sadly and sighed, “That’s democracy, I guess.” Another”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Do you have a mother?” “Naturally I used to have one,” I said. “A father, too, if memory serves. Only somewhere along the way I seem to have lost them both. Careless of me.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Then the green curtain in the confessional twitched and was drawn back, and a good-looking woman of about thirty stepped out. She was holding a rosary, crossing herself more for form’s sake than anything else. She was wearing a tight red dress and it was easy to see why she had spent such a long time in the confessional. From the look of her, none of the venial sins would have detained her. She was built for just the one kind of sin, the mortal kind that cried aloud to heaven when you managed to touch her in the right places.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“If there’s one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it’s dangerous to believe in anything very much.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Obedeci. Gosto de obedecer quando está em causa uma mulher interessante.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“A essência do engano não é a mentira que se diz, mas as verdades que se contam para a apoiar.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Era típico de uma prostituta arranjar um nome pomposo. Havia alturas em que pensava que a única razão por que as raparigas entravam neste ramo de actividade era para arranjarem um nome novo e bonito.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other

“Um bom polícia continua a ser um bom polícia, mesmo que seja um sacana nazi.”
― Philip Kerr, The One from the Other