To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. — Alan Bradley Flattery Copy Share Image
“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–” — Alan Bradley Friends Copy Share Image
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
“...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Commodities Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — Alan Bradley Friend Copy Share Image
“Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“A peculiar feeling passed over me--or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Mother Goose! I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a… — Alan Bradley Care Copy Share Image
“How I longed to tell her about Harriet--but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain and I… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death.… — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting… — Alan Bradley Books Copy Share Image
“Good morning, Flavia," she said at last, but her acknowledgment of my presence came too late for my liking.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2” — Alan Bradley Angel Copy Share Image
“I shot him a broad smile, a smile wide enough to present him with a good view of the wire braces that… — Alan Bradley Money Copy Share Image
“Was my life always to be like this? I wondered.Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow?… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning… — Alan Bradley Birth Copy Share Image
“Here we were, Father and I, shut up in a plain little room, and for the first time in my life having… — Alan Bradley Children Copy Share Image
“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do.… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“Excuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and… — Alan Bradley Dr johnson Copy Share Image
“I detected instantly that she didn’t like me. It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get… — Alan Bradley Books Copy Share Image
“I was gazing at a cup of cocoa on my night table. As I focused on the thick brown skin that had… — Alan Bradley Brown skin Copy Share Image
“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave… — Alan Bradley Bicycle Copy Share Image
“How I longed to tell her about Harriet—but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain, and I… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“But what he said was true enough: I had recently destroyed a perfectly good set of wire braces by straightening them to… — Alan Bradley Humour Copy Share Image
“Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That… — Alan Bradley Diamond Copy Share Image
“Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“as if Mother Nature had nodded off a little, and let the colors leak away. In” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“You never know what you're getting into when you stick your nose in other people's rubbish.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
“What else?" Nothing," Dogger said. "Just sign it. "Kings prefer brevity.” — Alan Bradley King Copy Share Image
“...Mrs. Mullet, when it came to gossip, was equaled only by the News of the World .” — Alan Bradley Gossip Copy Share Image
![“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave you at home." I could see that she was disappointed, even though she managed to put on a brave face. "I need you to stay here as a decoy," I whispered. "When they see you leaning…” quote by Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e95/alan-bradley-1571_bicycle_sorry-old-girl-i-said-to-my-bicycle-glad_1653870.png)
