Greeks Bearing Gifts Quotes

“Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.”
― Philip Kerr (author), Greeks Bearing Gifts

“I'd been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that's where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can never be absolutely sure about these things.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Doing nothing is usually the best thing to do, at least until you have worked out something better to do. Just like now. My first instinct when she got out of the car and stalked off like Achilles in a sulk was to put a bullet in your face, Max.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“most of the books were cheap paperbacks, crime novels and thrillers by English and American writers for whom choosing a red wine with fish was probably the kind of clue that would reveal the socially maladroit murderer’s identity to the very clever detective.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Lately I’ve been trying to work out why Mickey Mouse wears shorts and why Donald Duck wears a shirt, but no shorts at all. And how is it that Goofy talks and Pluto just barks? It’s a mystery to me.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“There are a lot of things I might do if I liked them better,” I said. “I just don’t know what they are yet.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“In my own experience carrying a gun tends to calm a man down. You can’t afford to lose your temper more than once when you have a Bismarck in your pocket. The police don’t like it.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“I’d probably like you a lot more if I disliked myself a little less.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Bureaucracy and trade were to be my country’s new method of conquering Europe, and lawyers and civil servants were to be its foot soldiers.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“few minutes later a heavy, gray-haired woman of about fifty entered the room; she was wearing black and generally resembled a poorly erected Bedouin’s tent.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Marriage is hell but loneliness is worse.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

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― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“I’ve come to believe that in life it’s best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“That’s going to take a box of tools you neither own nor know how to use.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“And wit only sounds like wit when there’s someone around to appreciate it.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can't think of good enough reasons why it might not be a good idea.”
― Philip Kerr (author), Greeks Bearing Gifts

“I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.”
― Philip Kerr (author), Greeks Bearing Gifts

“...like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow.”
― Philip Kerr (author), Greeks Bearing Gifts

“...any man is just made up of some deportment and behaviour that have met with the silent approval of a very small number of women.”
― Philip Kerr (author), Greeks Bearing Gifts

“The older I got the less I cared about anything.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Her perfume already had me by the knot in my tie and was gently kicking my brain around inside my skull.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“won’t entirely discount the scent of her perfume, the glint in her eyes, and the well-stocked baker’s tray she had out in front of her.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts