Murder & Matchmaking Quotes

“Mrs Bennet could not help but resent that a handful of pretty girls, even as corpses, attracted more attention from the gentleman than any of her daughters could merit.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Even if you were to forbid Miss Elizabeth Bennet to pursue such endeavours, Mrs Sherlock Darcy shall always be thrown into the path of sinister mysteries.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Sound observation, do you call it? There are not half a dozen individuals I consider capable of true observation.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Ladies are such unreliable witnesses; young ladies especially so. One never knows what facts they will fix upon and what they will disregard, and as many times as not, they will give you answers they believe you wish to hear rather than what they truly think.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“The only thought that vexed her more than the thought of her daughters being forced to live in miserable squalor was the notion that she might be turned out of her own house to join them.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Was it too much to ask that her daughter settle upon one thing – ill or well, alive or dead –”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“she was a congenitally ungraceful girl with a mortifying inaptitude for all accomplishments.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Though she had been surprised to find murder so thoroughly enjoyable, Mrs Bennet did not believe that this reflected any fault or wickedness in her character. She knew she only committed these acts to secure the future well-being of her daughters. Naturally, she would be able to stop killing once her daughters had husbands and there was no further use for such bloodthirsty deeds. Indeed, she felt adamant that she only enjoyed the planning and execution of such matters because her daughters had not been so good as to provide her with wedding preparations to occupy her active mind.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Though she had been surprised to find that murder was so thoroughly enjoyable, Mrs Bennet did not believe that this reflected any fault or wickedness in her character. She knew she only committed these acts to
secure the future well-being of her daughters. Naturally, she would be able to stop killing once her daughters had husbands and there was no further use for such bloodthirsty deeds. Indeed, she felt adamant that she only enjoyed the planning and execution of such matters because her daughters had not been so good as to provide her with wedding preparations to occupy her active mind.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer." - Mr Sherlock Darcy”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking

“Mrs Bennet was a great connoissuer of feminine beauty and indeed it must be owned that she herself was a very handsome woman. As to the sweetness of her temper, there was less compelling evidence; yet in all her forty years she had given none of her family or general acquaintance reason to suppose her a murderess.”
― Debbie Cowens, Murder & Matchmaking