Maigret and the Idle Burglar Quotes

“He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigid to reflect reality, which, as he knew from experience, was very fluid.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar

“We’re a bit like criminal lawyers. We’re the public face of things, but it’s the civil lawyers who do the serious work, in the shadows.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar

“He rarely spoke about his job, and even more rarely expressed an opinion about men and their institutions. He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigid to reflect reality, which, as he knew from experience, was very fluid. It was only with his friend Pardon, the doctor from Rue Popincourt, that he sometimes, after dinner, came out with what might, at a pinch, pass for revelations.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret

“They were reorganizing, as they called it. In the silence of their offices, well-educated, well-brought-up young men from the best families in the country were examining all sides of the matter in a quest for greater efficiency. What emerged from their learned cogitations were hare-brained schemes that found expression every week in new rules.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret

“Il fait courir”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret et le voleur paresseux