Prussian Blue Quotes

“There is evil in the best of us, of course; but perhaps just a little bit more in the worst of us.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That’s”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who’s in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Everywhere I looked, I found my own life-preserving compromises staring back at me like friends I’d shamefully betrayed. If”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“La cobardía solo lo parece cuando alguien te observa con atención y no corre ningún peligro. Hasta los hombres más valientes son cobardes cualquier otro día de la semana.”
― Philip Kerr, Azul de Prusia (Bernie Gunther nº 12)

“nada esquiva nuestra atención con tanta persistencia como lo que damos por sentado.”
― Philip Kerr, Azul de Prusia (Bernie Gunther nº 12)

“Perhaps nothing in life is more unpleasant to a man than to take the road that leads to himself.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“But I now had a keener appreciation of why people became Nazis in the first place; perhaps it was like he said: that they wanted to get away from dead-end, no-account places like Saarbrücken, wanted to achieve some sort of status among their fellow men, wanted their shitty, insignificant lives to mean something, even if they could find that meaning only in being mean to others—Jews, mostly, but anyone who didn’t agree with them would do.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Well, now I come to think of it, there was another Johann Diesbach, Johann Jacob Diesbach, a Berlin paint maker who invented the color Prussian blue, back in 1706. The whole Prussian army wore coats of Prussian blue until the Great War, when it moved over to field gray. At one time every Berlin schoolboy used to know the name of Johann Jacob Diesbach. So how about that, sir? How about Prussian blue?”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“myrmidons,”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Therein lies the true essence of Marxism. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’ only ever works with a gun in your hand. How”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Well, who knew? When they were elected. That they were crooks, I mean.” “Pretty much everyone who didn’t vote for them, Friedrich. And I suspect quite a few of the stupid fools who did. Which only makes it worse.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there’s nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“When you’re working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“I was never one for looking at beautiful scenery, and certainly not since 1933; it distracts from the more important and admittedly metropolitan business of keeping an eye out for the Gestapo, which, with my politics, is an ever-present dilemma.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue