The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions Quotes

“It was a cold winter's day in St. Kilda, and Mrs. Ragnell was wrapped up so tightly in furs and a sense of personal grievance that she resembled a polar bear with a hangover.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions

“It's a good idea, generally, not to offend women with that shade of Titian hair,' mused Phryne.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions

“The journey homewards in Phryne’s Hispano-Suiza was no more sprightly than usual and Dot contrived to survive it, as was her wont, by keeping her eyes shut and praying unobtrusively.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Charlie’s a bit older—maybe twenty-one?—and he’s a bit fresh with us girls. He makes rude comments.’ ‘Suggestive remarks?’ ‘Yes. But I slap him down. Helen just blushes and ignores him. She’s polite. I’m not.’ ‘Good for you, Janet.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Thank you, Matthew.’ Phryne inclined her chin towards him. ‘And just so you know, if you ever go anywhere near Jean again, I will hunt you down with a blunt knife and carve my initials in your liver. Good day!’ ***”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“It was a cold winter’s day in St Kilda, and Mrs Ragnell was wrapped up so tightly in furs and a sense of personal grievance that she resembled a polar bear with a hangover.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“My, Phryne, what a large car, and so very red! When I was a gel, I would have been considered fast for driving in it.’ She hopped into the car with delight. ‘But now I’m old, I can be as fast as I like, and I do find it refreshing”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Let me go or I’ll break your arm,’ she advised him. ‘Goodnight, Mr Clarke.’ She did not necessarily wait until her own door was closed before she added, ‘And good riddance!”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Miss Fisher, what is this all about?’ demanded Hoskins, who had never approved of women as a sex and particularly disliked excitable ones. ‘Why the ladder?”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Several students were lying at ease on the grass, and some hardy souls were reading, though most appeared to be absorbing literature by the osmosis method, which involved resting one’s head on the text and hoping that some of the knowledge would seep through into the sleeping skull.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Extended study of medieval verse, thought Phryne at breakfast, produces a hangover almost as bad as that obtained by drinking absinthe cocktails.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Ubi est liber? she wrote, pinned back the notice and went home to read Malory, a prospect which did not please.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“I don’t know what you think you can overhear on this balcony,’ said Phryne, walking away from Lilith and pausing with her hand on the doorknob, ‘but I didn’t hear a thing.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“The General bolted his serving, choked, and fell balletically from his chair, which crashed to the floor on top of him. It was the most interesting thing he had done all evening.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“But you do not know anything about me,’ observed Phryne in a clear, carrying voice as cold as one of Brenton’s blizzards. ‘Moderate your tone and mind your manners.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“She broke my heart,’ he muttered, slumping into his chair. ‘You should never entrust your heart, or other important organs, to anyone with that shade of hair or those blue eyes,’ said Phryne unsympathetically”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Several voices called out suggestions. Phryne replied so indelicately that there was another silence. Not even the dock women swore like that.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Lucy wailed and tore her hair, an act which Phryne had never actually seen before.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“The wages of sin is death, he reckons.’ ‘So is the salary of virtue,’ murmured Phryne. ‘And at least the wicked have a good time.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“She sipped her glass of burgundy and said, ‘Will, old thing, I am enjoying myself and all that, but what do you want to tell me? Can we get it over with, so that we can devote all of our attention to the food?”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Thanks,’ he muttered. ‘You’re a very clever sheila.’ Phryne took the compliment as it was meant. After all, she was a very clever sheila.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Granted that it was indecent, have you the right to judge other men’s sins? Has Jock McHale no free will? Can he not be allowed for his salvation to turn away from the hat, and have you not, by stealing it, removed every chance of such renunciation from him? Is that just?”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“The adulation that men gave to football was quite beyond Phryne. It seemed to equal and surpass the delight she herself took in food, sleep, intellectual puzzles, clothes, and beautiful young men. Odd.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Both men looked at Phryne solemnly. She repressed a laugh. The Archbishop continued.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“My dear girl, revenge is always sweet but it is not generally profitable”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Phryne was interested in the colour of his face—a glowing purple—but reflected that it clashed lamentably with her gown.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Good. Come up and see m’wife, will you? She’s upset.’ *** It was possible to gauge the degree of upset from the sobbing and wailing which was apparent in the hall.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Yes?’ Phryne was beginning to dislike her unwanted guest so much that she was hoping he would choke on his whisky, even though it was not the good whisky.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“He had another diamond on his left hand, big enough to choke a parrot.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

“Not for the first time, Phryne wondered if Lindsay ever listened to himself.”
― Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection