Quotes from james hadley chase

the less you know the less lies you will tell

Anson looked searchingly at her. His eyes moved over her body. He thought: you meet a woman and she starts a chemical reaction in you. You think there is no one like her in the world, then something happens, and it is finished. She means less to me now than the used plate after a good meal, and how little can that be?

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.

I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.

It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but when cornered turns to be one of the dangerous and vicious of all jungle beasts. The vulture is a patient bird. James hadley chase.

It's better to be sick of life than not have a life.

When a kingdom loses its king, there's always a scramble to grab.

impatiently and looked around the room. It wasn't anything a millionaire's wife would get excited about. Tony, my

rather like a tired ghost after a long and exhausting spell of haunting.