Death in a White Tie Quotes

“It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“She's extremely common, but that doesn't matter. Lots of common people are charming. Like bounders. I believe no woman ever falls passionately in love with a man unless he has just the least touch of the bounder somewhere in his composition.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“I tell you what,” said Troy more amiably. “I’ve always been frightened of the whole business. Love and so on.”
“The physical side?”
“Yes, that, but much more than that. The whole business. The breaking down of all one’s reserves. The mental as well as the physical intimacy.”
“My mind to me a kingdom is.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“You are quite right, Fox. Never quote, and if you do certainly not from Macbeth.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“hospitality.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“It was singular. It was damned odd. He must have touched a letter under her pillow because when he straightened up”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“It’s a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie

“The merciless scent of flowers was so heavy here that it hung like mist on the cold air. The room was crowded with flowers. In the centre, on three shrouded trestles, Robert Gospell’s body lay in its coffin.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie