London Match Quotes

“Like all women she was tyrannized by her biology.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“He had the wide toothy smile of the Oriental.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“There is no sadness to compare with the grief of the young.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“You should never have told them,’ said Dicky, who could always be relied upon for excellent advice long after it was any use.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“Time used to be the panacea for everything, but nowadays our sins are remembered on computers, and random-accessed memories do not fade.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“She said, ‘I’ll make tea; I’d like a cup myself.’ She was very close to me, standing in front of the mirror. She glanced at her reflection as she straightened her hair and smoothed her rumpled nightdress. It was thin, almost transparent, and the light was shining through it. ‘Come here, duchess,’ I said. ‘I don’t feel like tea just yet.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“It was only a matter of time. The urge to reform the male is something no woman can resist.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“I’m not rich enough to do anything I want to do. But I know what you mean; I’m rich enough to avoid doing the things I don’t want to do.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“You can find everything you want there and a lot of things you’ve been trying to avoid.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“Berlin is a sort of history book of twentieth-century violence, and every street corner brought a recollection of something I’d heard, seen, or read. We followed the road alongside the Landwehr Canal, which twists and turns through the heart of the city. Its oily water holds many dark secrets.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“The self-effacing furtiveness that all Europeans have been taught, in a society still essentially feudal, does not come readily to Americans.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“You have to have an infinity of compassion to look after a drunkard,’ said Bret.”
― Len Deighton, London Match: A Bernard Samson Novel

“But I saw no sign of Fiona shedding the chrysalis of Communism.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“She was only a child and I suppose such corny little manifestations of endearment were what she thought appropriate to her role as a femme fatale.”
― Len Deighton, London Match

“Like all such London dinner parties it ended rather early and we were home and undressing for bed before midnight. We didn’t read.”
― Len Deighton, London Match