The Witch of the Low Tide Quotes

“If you stood motionless in the stream of time, listening to crying voices out of the past, you might presently believe that your feelings or your neighbour's were of puny significance because they had been experienced so often before and would be experienced again when you had gone. Whereas they did matter; they were the only reality; there was no shame in feeling the hurt.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Witch of the Low Tide

“We’ve all met one or two women, I daresay, it would have been better if we hadn’t met.” “Now there,” observed Cullingford Abbot, “we have a short history of mankind expressed with admirable terseness.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Witch of the Low Tide

“I beg your pardon,” said Abbot. “You are quite right, of course. I am not myself fond of bad taste, though I am always displaying it. Go on.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Witch of the Low Tide