Quotes from Catherine Webb

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?

Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.

Lincoln's smile could have scared rattlesnakes.

The doorkeeper of the Norfolk Club was a man by the name of Cartiledge. As a youth, his heart had been romantic, his head had been poetic and his political affiliations had been conservative to an extreme. He hadn't planned on a life of holding the door open for the aristocracy, and years of bowing to nobility had given him a sense both of what Karl Marx had been on about, and of profound, world-weary depression. Nothing interesting happened at the Norfolk Club.

out of it glided ladies in dresses that trailed along in a rustle of silk, men who swept their hats off with the same grandeur with which they swung their canes, liveried servants with impassive expressions, expectant drivers and porters bearing lighted candles.

He sighed. 'Phrenology is where the size and shape of your skull determines whether you dunnit or not.