Pictures of Perfection Quotes

“Pascoe meanwhile put his arm around Wield and cried, ‘Oh God, Wieldy, are you all right?’ It was not perhaps the question a man of education in such a circumstance would wish to have asked, but cliché comes in through the french window when deep emotion writes the script.”
― Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection

“Either you did things his way now, or you did them his way a little later.”
― Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection

“Perfection is unnatural, Sergeant, because it implies the absence of either development or decline. Haven’t you noticed it’s the political parties and the religions with the clearest notions of the perfect society that cause the most harm? Once admit the notion of human perfectibility, and the end can be made to justify any amount of pain and suffering along the way.”
― Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection

“furiosant, for there was certainly more of the mad bull”
― Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection