Metropolis Quotes

“In case you’ve forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“My point is this: Can you imagine how much of existence would be impossible if people didn’t believe in a certain amount of luck in the face of all evidence to the contrary? The true essence of human life is delusion.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“People don’t like new ideas. Especially in Germany. They like the old ones. The old lies best of all. That’s what Hitler is all about. Says he’s got new ideas but they’re just the old ideas, reheated, like yesterday’s dinner.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“I never much liked musicals. It’s the music I don’t care for, but as well, it’s the relentlessly jolly theater folk who cavort across the stage—I hate them. But mostly it’s the idea that when the nearly always tenuous story reaches its greatest dramatic intensity, someone sings or dances, or sings and dances, and for no discernible reason. Speaking as someone who doesn’t much care to be entertained, I always prefer dialogue to song because it takes half the time to get through and brings the sanctuary of the bar, or even home, just that little bit closer.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Not that it mattered much to George Grosz; he didn’t seem to mind that people looked at him as if he were a lunatic; maybe that was supposed to be artistic in itself, like walking your pet lobster through the streets on a blue silk ribbon.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“lung hash”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Most people were trying to make enough to get by, but it was never enough to get ahead.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“The dress was like a map since it showed every place I now wanted to explore.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“I never yet saw a musical I didn’t think could be improved by a deeper pit for the orchestra”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“I don’t trust a man who doesn’t drink,’ he said. ‘It means he doesn’t trust himself and I’ve no use for a man who doesn’t trust himself. You can’t rely on a man like that. Not in this business. But there’s a drink and then there’s drinking. One’s a cop’s good friend and the other’s a cop’s worst enemy.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Sometimes there is nothing quite so dreadful as your fellow man”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“But I’m afraid the lesson of history is that it’s never really over. Not today and certainly not tomorrow.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“There’s nothing like an old friendship to provide a solid basis for a lasting enmity.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“On the contrary. In this case I think there’s every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“I caught a glimpse of her onstage as I made my way up to one of the dressing rooms – one of those thin, pale-faced, red-haired Berlin girls who reminded me of a safety match.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Rankin lit a cigarette with a handsome gold lighter, stared into the flame for a moment as if it might provide a clue to the origins of the explosion, and then said, ‘What do you think,”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“If there’s one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who’s thinking, it’s a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“You give people chances. What they do with those chances is their own affair. It’s”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“You’re hard enough to ice skate on,”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Can you imagine how much of existence would be impossible if people didn’t believe in a certain amount of luck in the face of all evidence to the contrary? The true essence of human life is delusion. That’s what we’ve got in here. And it’s been that way ever since the first Roman soldier blew on a handful of dice. It’s simple human nature to believe your luck is going to turn.”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis

“Sometimes there is nothing quite”
― Philip Kerr, Metropolis