Quotes from Rhys Bowen

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

All he has is a mangled ankle. I have Americans.

I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can.

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

At least he was useful in some ways. He made good cheese.

Then how can prayers be answered if you do not call upon the saints to help? God is obviously too busy to do everything alone.

Sure. Why not?" he said. "A cup of tea. That's what everyone drank all through the war. A bomb was dropped and everyone said, 'It's all right. Have a cup of tea.'" And he laughed.

I decided never to eat bacon again. But I happen to adore bacon, so that didn't last long.

Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup." "I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed.

But flirting does not come easily to someone brought up in a remote castle with tartan wallpaper in the bathrooms, bagpipes at dawn and men who wear kilts.

We humans have the capacity to survive almost anything. Not only to survive but to come through triumphant. Another door will open. You'll see. A better one. A safer one. A brighter future.

In case you haven't noticed, people aren't nice,

I'm teaching you how to survive in a difficult world. You can't be under your parents' thumb forever. You have to take charge of your own life now you're going to be twenty-one.

Fill in?" she demanded. "For the weekend?" She winced as if each of these words were causing her pain. "I am afraid we do not handle that sort of thing." By that she implied that I had requested a stripper straight from the Casbah. So

How quickly life can change. Well, maybe it was time that it changed again. I was in a beautiful place, staying with a kind woman, and I was going to enjoy myself, whatever the outcome was.

At last he said, "I've been fourteen years on the police force. I've learned from seasoned veterans. I've handled all types of criminal cases. But my wife, newly arrived from the backwoods of Ireland, manages to tie up all my unsolved cases for me with apparently no effort at all. I should just quit my job and stay home looking after the babies while you go out to work for us.

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

There is nothing to say except that life is unfair. You will get over it, … but only time will heal your wounds, and then not completely. We just have to made do with what we have left and treasure those around us who are still alive.