The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much. — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
“On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon secured the… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“If you're going to go and buy a load of stolen goods, you can't take a whole crowd of friends with you. The presence… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“I should explain — in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising — that Daphne and I are now bosom… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“Julia did very well,' said Selena, 'not to fall into the lagoon. How beastly of that woman to suggest she'd had too much to… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“Eleanor was charming. That is to say, her manner seemed designed to merit that description: she displayed towards us a sort of girlish archness,… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
“I would think it odd, he said, that he had never married. I did not, in fact, think it at all odd--the statistical chances… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share
