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

“martinet”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“So you see, really, there’s not much harm done at the end of the day. The status quo is restored.” “Is that what you’d call it?” “This is all that one requires in a case like this, is it not? For the furniture to be put back the same way it was arranged before. These days it’s only the lawyers and the pedants and the foreign correspondents who worry about how one conducts a case. The proper procedures, the gathering of evidence—these things mean nothing, not anymore. Not since Hitler. He cuts through these decadent superfluities and shows us that the conclusion is everything, Gunther. You of all people should understand this. The important thing in concluding a case successfully is actually concluding it. Not postponing it. Not allowing for the possibility of compromise, or appeal, or a faulty verdict. The end has to satisfy everyone, does it not?”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“So you see, really, there’s not much harm done at the end of the day. The status quo is restored.” “Is that what you’d call it?” “This is all that one requires in a case like this, is it not? For the furniture to be put back the same way it was arranged before. These days it’s only the lawyers and the pedants and the foreign correspondents who worry about how one conducts a case. The proper procedures, the gathering of evidence—these things mean nothing, not anymore. Not since Hitler. He cuts through these decadent superfluities and shows us that the conclusion is everything, Gunther.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“God moves in mysterious ways but it’s best to recognize that most of the mystery relates to why people still think he gives a damn about any of us.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“gainsay”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“deracinated,”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“You see, I found a letter from my husband’s mistress, Pony, in his coat pocket. Yes, that’s her name. Don’t ask me how you get a name like Pony.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Because you always stay the course. You’re like Schmeling; you keep getting up even though the fight is lost.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“On the wall was a print of one of those awful fruit and vegetable portraits that make apples and grapes look like grotesque, erupting skin conditions. This one made me believe it was quite possible I had a marrow for a head and a tomato for a brain.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“But if you ask me, that’s another suspicious suicide. Who the fuck ends his life on a Saturday morning? Monday morning I could understand. But not a Saturday.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Berliners like me were not meant for empty places like this. We like the sound of noise more than we care for the noise of silence, which is always a little too long and loud for our cynical metropolitan ears. The true hallmarks of civilization are clamor, hubbub, and commotion. Give me pandemonium every time.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“The magic potion had started to kick in again. It was odd how it made you feel impatient and intolerant and even a bit superhuman—like a Nazi, I suppose.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“internecine”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“There was much I wanted to tell Hermann Kaspel but mostly it was that I’d misjudged him and that he’d been a good comrade and that’s the best you can say to a man when he’s dead or going to die. Even if it’s not true. The truth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Never was.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“iniquity”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Everything about that room resembled the parlor of an old lady suffering from green color blindness; it was like being inside a bottle of Chartreuse.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Another thing Hitler said was that it’s not truth that matters, but victory.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“rapacious”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“This is all that one requires in a case like this, is it not? For the furniture to be put back the same way it was arranged before.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“With its German simplicity and French pretensions”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“A righteous man falls down seven times”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“and slept as well as any man ever slept who had no job”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“There is evil in the best of us”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“It was only something Goethe once said. That everything is hard before it’s easy.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“Who was it said that none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who believe they are free?’ ‘It was Goethe. And you misquote him. He said that none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Philip Kerr, Prussian Blue

“the Saar resembled some ghastly transvestite – a very muscular man badly in need of a shave who was wearing lipstick and high heels in a hopeless attempt to pass himself off as a pretty coquette.”
― 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