The Body in the Dales Quotes

“We should never judge, really; we never know the full circumstances and it’s easy to become”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“Think, Carter. Use the “little grey cells”, as Agatha Christie’s Poirot says in the stories. All the great detectives spent time reflecting on the case. Remember Sherlock Holmes playing his violin far into the night.’ ‘And injecting himself with cocaine?’ interjected Steph. ‘You won’t be doing that, will you, sir?’ she asked cheekily. ‘No,’ replied Oldroyd. ‘The similarities between myself and Conan Doyle’s creation are few, apart from our brilliantly perceptive minds.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“Surrounding it was an awesome landscape, indifferent to human affairs.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“Evil’s very ordinary; it’s close to us all the time, just as goodness is. It’s a dangerous illusion to preen ourselves up on our feelings of superiority to those who commit these awful crimes.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“We should never judge, really; we never know the full circumstances and it’s easy to become self-righteous. We should always think: “There but for the grace of God”.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“a well-educated person was not someone who knew the answer to every question, but someone who knew where to find the answer?”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“Power structures were always the same: everyone gets kicked by the people above them and then kicks the person below, especially in an organisation like the police force where rank is all-important.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“You don’t go around accusing people of murder without being pretty certain of your ground.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“There’s nothing the ghoulish public like more than gawping at the scene of a murder.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“The villagers were used to pothole rescues and the occasional accidental death. Murder was a different matter, especially of a man known as the local rogue. This was no outsider’s crime where the body had been brought in and dumped. This, in all likelihood, had been committed by one of them.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“clothes, was damp and when Oldroyd”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“but murder:”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“had”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“Police were like the rest of officialdom generally: they interfered with your work and made things difficult with their regulations and bureaucracy.”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“That’s what Hannah Arendt called the “banality of evil”. She was talking about Adolf Eichmann, an unremarkable bureaucrat whose day at the office involved organising the transportation of Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz. Evil’s very ordinary; it’s close to us all the time, just as goodness is. It’s a dangerous illusion to preen ourselves up on our feelings of superiority”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales

“How dreary-swift with naught to travel to is time?”
― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales