Quotes from Barbara Cleverly

The best saints swear fluently.

Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.

His quick wits, his language skills and personal knowledge of the battle arena brought him success and esteem and his abilities had not gone unremarked when, after the war, he had decided to join the police force.

But that's ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!' 'If that's Chepstow he is a lord,' objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. 'He's entitled, you might say.

All women become like their mothers.

Colonial wives had a reputation for being dowdy.

Why, Sandilands? Why?