Quotes About Donna Leon

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Don't you have any desire for vengeance? he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.

To serious readers like him and Paola, reading was an activity, not a pastime, and so the presence of another person added nothing to it.

Not for the first time in his career, Brunetti reflected upon the possible advantage of censorship of the press.

Roberta Marieschi

International law, I think, and very good at it. I think I might have read something about a deal with Poland or Czechoslovakia—one of those places where they eat potatoes and dress badly—but I can't remember which.

We can't have Americans being murdered in this city, not with the state of tourism this year. Do you understand that?

Brunetti was certain she had gone to Catholic schools: it was only there that children mastered the alchemical formula of untruth and hypocrisy that was sure to persuade even the most sceptical listener.

Nor has the extent of your prosperity produced any change in you, except that it has given you the power of doing good to the utmost of your wishes. And whilst all these circumstances increase the veneration which other persons feel for you, with respect to myself, they have made me so bold, as to wish to become more familiar.

Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.

knew, yet his behaviour had suggested that his information was of

from exerting his full force out of consideration for what it would do to Brunetti's hand.