The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set Quotes

“man hungry for success with just the right amount of ruthlessness. Sentimental businessmen in Sir Jacob’s experience almost always went bust. There could be no sentiment in business. Only in charity.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“His whole life has been focused on money. Why do people want more and more money when they’ve got enough?” “Feelings of insecurity. As hunters and gatherers our ancestors always searched for more. Even when they had enough food. Wired into us, I suppose.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“Sometimes I forget you are English.” “Well, don’t. We’re a mild lot until we get pissed off.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“What was difficult was finding an honest, dedicated man with a clear brain to watch over everything and find the flaws by thinking through all the problems before going ahead. As they had taught him at Oxford, the vital link in the chain of business was management. Without good management all the workers in the world would be going round in circles with no one in the end making any money, the investment coming to nothing, everyone out of a job.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“the great religious teachers in history were little different to the best philosophers, both trying to find in a short time on earth the meaning for life beyond animal pleasures in a hedonistic world always dominated by power and money.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“Never tell an audience what they don’t want to hear, Barnaby. Never tell anybody for that matter, certainly not if you want to make money or a friend. And never ever overrate the cerebral capacity of the human mind unless it reflects well on themselves. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have a clue what you are talking about if you convince them first only a clever person like themselves would understand. Then they feel superior. A truly good play has a splendid, easy to understand story, like Romeo and Juliet, and slips the knife into the audience with the truth without them knowing. Making them think and understand later when they get home.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“He had slept not a minute despite his dream being much longer, which was always the case… A dream was all in one picture, he was told. An instant event with all the sequences coming in one, which the brain formatted when the sleeper woke up.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“The last Sunday in September was beautiful. A day for Christopher to walk in the park, or better still take the train into the English countryside to smell the flowers and feel the reason for him being alive. If there was a Creator, Christopher found him in the countryside, not in a man-made building with man-made music to condition his mind. He did not sing praises to his Creator. He let the birds do that. They were better. Every one of them he had ever heard could sing in tune.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“With modern medicine we’ve cut the child mortality rate in Rhodesia by eighty per cent in the last fifty years.” “They won’t remember that. They’ll want their land back. Like the Russian peasants. People always want what they haven’t got. They don’t see hard work and knowledge as a prerequisite for making a success of their lives.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“People are funny.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6