The Beast Must Die Quotes

“I see you have the advantage of me,' he said. 'Very well. I'll make it as brief as I can. I'll tell you the plain facts and I only hope you won't draw the wrong conclusions from them. George Rattery had been making advances to my wife for some time. She was amused, intrigued, gratified by it - any woman might be, you know; George was a handsome brute, in his way. She may even have carried on a harmless flirtation with him. I did not remonstrate with her: if one is afraid to trust one's own wife, one has no right to be married at all. That's my view, at any rate.”
― Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die

“But pride – I shouldn’t worry about that – it’s the white elephant of the emotions, very imposing and expensive, and the sooner one can get rid of it, the better.”
― Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die

“Hamlet was no hesitant, timid, veering neurotic. He was a man with a genius for hatred – one who brought it to a fine art. All the time he is supposed to have been vacillating, he was in reality sucking dry the body of his enemy; the final death of the King was no more than the flinging aside of an empty skin – the skin of a fruit sucked dry.”
― Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die

“My studies in criminology have suggested to me that only generals, Harley Street specialists and mine owners can get away with murder successfully.”
― Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die