Quotes from Edmund Crispin

Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.

You'll laugh at me, of course"—Geoffrey smiled a hasty and unconvincing negative—"but in the long run it is the people who dream of being men of action who are the men of action. Admittedly Don Quixote made a fool of himself with the windmills, but when all's said and done, there probably were giants about.

wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him

A nomadic chicken was pacing across the street

Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;

The Misses Bale don't like it a bit, but I say to them, "Titty," I say -or as it may be, "Tatty" – their names are Titania and Tatiana -that awful mother of theirs –

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....