An Act of Foul Play Quotes

“You’re squiffy, dear,’ said Lady Hardcastle. ‘Soaked. Spiffed. Three sheets in the wind. All mops and brooms. You are in Liquorpond Street with more than a touch of boskiness about you. You are wet-handed, what-nosed and whittled. You are, in short, as tight as a boiled owl.”
― T.E. Kinsey, An Act of Foul Play

“Civil servants who occasionally kill people,’ said Nancy. ‘Only occasionally, dear. And only when they really deserve it.”
― T.E. Kinsey, An Act of Foul Play

“People try to kill me far less often when I’m just lurking in the background keeping my eyes and ears open. Things get ugly very quickly once we start trying to become active participants in the fun and games.’ ‘Be fair, Flo dear, they mostly try to kill me.’ ‘Of course they do – it’s a perfectly understandable impulse – but who has to stop them?”
― T.E. Kinsey, An Act of Foul Play

“Appearances can be deceptive, dear. I grudgingly allow that my darling brother is a very capable chap – we’ve trusted our lives to his abilities more than once – but don’t let his bluff confidence fool you into thinking he knows it all. He was taught Bluff Confidence at school along with Latin and Greek, and the principal purpose of all three is to make him and his kind appear much cleverer than they really are.”
― T.E. Kinsey, An Act of Foul Play

“His department has so many wild notions about conspiracies, about the secret plans and machinations of the country’s enemies, but he never manages to convincingly explain how the sort of nincompoops who run the governments of the world could manage to concoct such elaborate schemes while still being incapable of feeding and housing their own populations.”
― T.E. Kinsey, An Act of Foul Play