Quotes from Philip Kerr

Obedeci. Gosto de obedecer quando está em causa uma mulher interessante.

I have to hand it to you people. Three attempts to kill Hitler in as many weeks and all of them botched. You would think that a group of senior army officers would know how to kill one man. It's what you're supposed to be good at, damn it. None of you seemed to have any trouble slaughtering millions during the Great War. But it seems beyond any of you to actually kill Hitler. Next thing you'll be telling me you were planning to use silver bullets to shoot the bastard.

wondering if I should

Rankin lit a cigarette with a handsome gold lighter, stared into the flame for a moment as if it might provide a clue to the origins of the explosion, and then said, 'What do you think

Era típico de uma prostituta arranjar um nome pomposo. Havia alturas em que pensava que a única razão por que as raparigas entravam neste ramo de actividade era para arranjarem um nome novo e bonito.

alacrity. When the head was completely severed he lifted

Either way God was going to have to choose sides and choose soon: the godless communists or the blaspheming Germans. Who would be God with a choice like that?

Therein lies the true essence of Marxism. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' only ever works with a gun in your hand. How

I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song.

Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the

acts. Looking at Noreen, you wondered why anyone ever bothered to draw or paint anything else but a woman's naked body.

I'm sure I don't have to tell a German what a "special operation" amounts to. You Germans use this euphemism too, don't you? When you want to kill thousands of people and pretend that it's something sanitary.

About thirty centimeters high, the figure appeared to be dancing a tango with a rather scantily clad girl who reminded me a lot of Anita Berber. Anita had been the queen of Berlin's nude dancers at the White Mouse Club on Jägerstrasse until the night she'd laid out one of the patrons with an empty champagne bottle. The story was he'd objected to her pissing on his table, which used to be her shtick. I missed the old Berlin.

That's going to take a box of tools you neither own nor know how to use.

On the contrary. In this case I think there's every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.

His name was Kurt Waldheim.

Je ne suis pas un nazi. Je suis un Allemand. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Un Allemand est un homme qui arrive à surmonter ses pires préjugés. Un nazi, quelqu'un qui les change en lois. (Hôtel Adlon - If The Dead Rise Not)

Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.

says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by

Today's freedom fighters are tomorrow's dictators.

there wasn't much to say about Klaus Hering except that he was about thirty years old, slimly built, fair-haired and, thanks in part to his necktie, getting on for tall.

You talk like the Nazis were going to win the election, Bernie." "I keep hoping they won't. And I keep worrying that they might. But I've got seven loaves and five fishes telling me the republic needs more than just a lucky break this time. If I wasn't a cop, I might believe in miracles. But I am and I don't. In this job you meet the lazy, the stupid, the cruel, and the indifferent. Unfortunately, that's what's called an electorate.

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

they were about as distinguished as packets of Persil.