Born Guilty Quotes

“Butcher, you’re something else,’ said Joe shaking his head in wonderment. ‘You were born knowing things I’ll never find out!’ ‘We’re all born knowing them,’ she said quietly. ‘It’s finding out you know them that takes some folk a long time.”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“Unfortunately, parking was bad in Dextergate which had more double yellows than a Bengal tiger.”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“We’re all born innocent. It’s getting guilty that makes life worth bothering about.”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“That’s right. The Creation. Though if, as one imagines He must have done, the Almighty foresaw what we were going to do with it, can you suggest half a dozen good reasons why He bothered?”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“existence was like a huge Persian carpet. Looked at from close up, your little square might just seem a mess, but stand back far enough and you’d see for sure it was all one carefully patterned weave. Trouble was, like a photographer on a cliff, it was hard to get the right focus without falling off. But”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“In an emergency some people keep their heads like draught Guinness while others are losing theirs faster than lukewarm lager.”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty

“you’ve got such a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I bet you were born in a different hospital from the one they took your mother to.”
― Reginald Hill, Born Guilty