The Phantom Quotes

“what was all that crying about?’ Silence. He, Johnny Mac, had mastered the art of parenting. Feed the child. Show it who is boss. It really was that simple. Or so he thought.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“This was a mother and a father of a cloudburst.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Her blonde hair bubbled and boiled without any control,”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“swivel-eyed bleaters of the first rank.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Plans for today, sir?’ ‘Pining, I think, with a dash of self-pity,”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“the hospital was a never-ending conveyor belt of misery. The terrible consequences of man’s inhumanity were fed through on a daily basis.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Oh nonsense, a good marriage is built on deception. What would be the point of trust otherwise?”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“these new-fangled communications devices: the telephone. Initially distrusting of the device that seemed as intrusive as it was ugly, she had grown to become quite addicted to its utility and could spend hours on it with her friends.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Beggars confronted him on every corner. Many missing limbs, their eyesight, their mind. Hand scrawled messages proclaimed a similar story of why they were begging. A land fit for heroes, thought the young man.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Three ladies Cavendish turned around to Kit at that moment with looks on their faces, that caused a hero of the Great War, the rescuer of Kerensky and countless other perilous missions to wish he could shrink into the wall. Such is the implicit power wielded by the distaff side of humanity.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Miller watched the diminutive Medusa ascend the stairs with something approaching relish. This would be a fascinating contest between the two ladies. The relative youth of Lady Emily against the old war elephant herself. Lady Emily may have built up a winning record against lower ranked opponents in the country, today she was testing her mettle against an undefeated legend.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“brushing Miller aside with her samurai umbrella”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Mary cast her mind back, once again, to the first meeting between herself, Agatha Frost and Lady Emily. A meeting so seismic, it made the movement of tectonic plates under the earth seem like a kitten’s paw stroking its mother’s nose.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“as it dawned on her that dawn would soon be dawning.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Chief Inspector Jellicoe.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“it’s not for me to undermine your wishes by dint of such minor considerations as wisdom and experience.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“You may know her, Lady Agatha Frost?’ The look on Wolf’s face a suggested delicate mixture of surprise, amusement and fear, rather in the manner of meeting a baby shark and then its mother. ‘Well,’ smiled Wolf, ‘I do know the lady in question. Quite formidable if I remember correctly.’ ‘Your memory does not betray you sir,’ smiled Mary, ‘Formidable is one way of putting it. Terrifying would have worked also. Thankfully I, too, have an aunt who provided rigorous training in dealing with, well aunts,”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“A greater and, frankly, more credible detective than I once said that if you can eliminate the impossible then whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Van Dyck portrait of a Dutch woman overlooking the whole scene with all the patience, bonhomie and good spiritedness of a wife awaiting her lord and master’s return home from the pub.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“The sight presented by the estimable young Mullins would, almost certainly, have induced paroxysms of pride in his mother and mirth in his father: such is the uncommon nature of women and the immaturity of men.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom

“Night crept into London’s Grosvenor Square, like a street urchin picking a rich man’s pocket: stealthily at first and then all at once.”
― Jack Murray, The Phantom