Tuppenny Hat Detective Quotes

“When people look at each other, doctor, do you know what they see?'
He shrugged, somberly.
'They see skin,and that's all they see. Anything else is put there by their own imagination. In other words, they see what they want to see. Nothing more nor less.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“Sometimes we never really know what we want, and more often than not we get it completely wrong.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“When people look at each other, doctor, do you know what they see?' He shrugged, sombrely. 'They see skin, and that's all they see. Anything else is put there by their own imaginations. In other words, they see what they want to see. Nothing more nor less.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“You can't have that,' she whispered hotly, as though he'd ordered the coddled testicles of the Dalai Lama.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“A good detective checks everything – even the shadow of a shadow. Remember that.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“Telling a dog to go home is like asking the tide not to come in.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“Huh, when did being a grown up ever mean owt?”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“Billy had heard that you could tell about people by the newspapers they read.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective

“Old folk are always toppling over - me mam sez.”
― Brian Sellars, Tuppenny Hat Detective