If The Dead Rise Not Quotes

“Today’s freedom fighters are tomorrow’s dictators.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“He’s someone else I haven’t read. One of these days I’m going to have to learn how. It’s strange. I can buy any amount of books. But I’ve found it’s no substitute for reading them.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“Behind the desk is another man wearing a black uniform and the same unhelpful expression you see all over Germany. It is the face of totalitarian bureaucracy and officialdom. This face does not seek to please. It is not there to serve you. It cares not if you live or die. It regards you not as a citizen but as an object to be processed, up the stairs or out the door. It is how a man looks when he stops behaving like a human being and becomes a kind of robot. Unquestioning obedience. Orders to be carried out without a second thought. This is what they want. Ranks upon serried ranks of steel-helmeted automatons.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“And they believed you?” asked Mrs. Charalambides. “Of course they believed me.” “But why?” she said. “It’s such an obvious lie.” “And when did that ever stop the Nazis?”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“I felt like a porcupine in a room full of toy balloons.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“That’s the thing about people with money. It’s only the absence of money that ever makes it seem relevant.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“But I often wondered if anyone had ever dared ask Hitler if he could smell gas, because that was what he looked like: a gas sniffer. Sometimes you saw these men fitting long pipes into holes in the road and then sniffing the open ends for escaping gas. It always gave them the same telltale smudge on the upper lip.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“He smiled ruefully. “What?” “What you said just now, you reminded me of something,” said Behlert. “I was remembering what it was like to speak without looking over your shoulder.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“It’s the fate of every race to think itself chosen by God,’ I added. ‘But it’s the fate of only a very few races that they’re sufficiently stupid as to try to put that into practice.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“Emperor Charles V said he spoke Spanish to God”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“But”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“un policía se da cuenta enseguida de si un hombre miente; lo verdaderamente difícil es saber cuándo dice la verdad.”
― Philip Kerr, Si los muertos no resucitan

“como dijo Immanuel Kant, es curioso lo mucho que podemos equivocarnos con muchas cosas que nos parecen verdad.”
― Philip Kerr, Si los muertos no resucitan

“Is dat een hakenkruis op dat stuk steen?"
"Het is een zegel", zei ze. "Van de beschaving uit de Indusvallei. Van rond 1500 voor Christus. De swastika was een belangrijk religieus symbool van onze verre voorvaderen."
Ik grijnsde. "Of misschien probeerden ze ons ergens voor te waarschuwen.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“Americans were different: even after they’d dropped a couple of atom bombs on the Japs, they still wanted to be liked. Which struck me as just a little naive.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“they were about as distinguished as packets of Persil.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“You’ve got me confused with some kind of saint, Noreen. The kind who’s OK with being martyred as long as his halo’s straight in the photograph. If I’m going to throw myself to the lions, I want it to mean a lot more than just being remembered in some milkmaid’s prayers on a Sunday morning. I never was a man for a useless gesture.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“You read much, Bernie?’ ‘More and more,’ I admitted. ‘And for me it’s like the French Foreign Legion. I do it to forget. Myself, I think.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“I wouldn’t say we lived in a tough neighborhood, but when I was growing up we still called a story with a happy ending an alibi.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“acts. Looking at Noreen, you wondered why anyone ever bothered to draw or paint anything else but a woman’s naked body.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“The man uttering these words had a face like the Golem of Prague and a barrel-shaped body that belonged on a beer cart. He wore a short leather coat and a cap with a peak that grew straight out of his forehead. He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“I shrugged. “Staying in a hotel is a bit like life. At some stage you have to check out.” “Oh,”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“About thirty centimeters high, the figure appeared to be dancing a tango with a rather scantily clad girl who reminded me a lot of Anita Berber. Anita had been the queen of Berlin’s nude dancers at the White Mouse Club on Jägerstrasse until the night she’d laid out one of the patrons with an empty champagne bottle. The story was he’d objected to her pissing on his table, which used to be her shtick. I missed the old Berlin.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not

“The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.”
― Philip Kerr, If The Dead Rise Not