--- title: "1 Keeping Eyes Quotes By Andrea Camilleri" description: "1 Keeping Eyes quotes by Andrea Camilleri. Plus more from Andrea Camilleri and more Keeping Eyes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/andrea-camilleri-18718_attention_montalbano-and-valente-seemed-not-to-hav_3164900.png" --- > [Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/montalbano-and-valente-seemed-not-to-have-heard-him-looking-as-if/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/andrea-camilleri-18718_attention_montalbano-and-valente-seemed-not-to-hav_3164900.png) ## More by Andrea Camilleri > [“rosticceria . . . cuddriruni . . . arancini supplì: A rosticceria is a take-out restaurant serving mostly roast meats; cuddriruni is a Sicilian sort of focaccia, served with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/rosticceria-cuddriruni-arancini-suppl-a-rosticceria-is-a-take-out/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“They ate in religious silence, the corners of their mouths smeared with ricotta cream. Which, the rules say, must be removed with a slow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/they-ate-in-religious-silence-the-corners-of-their-mouths-smeared/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,” the priest had said one day. Montalbano, never very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/in-grammar-school-he-d-had-an-old-priest-as-his-religion-teacher/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/wearing-glasses-for-reading-meant-surrendering-to-old-age-without-the/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“It meant that, today, to enter any place whatsoever – an airport, a bank, a jeweller’s or watchmaker’s shop – you had to submit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/it-meant-that-today-to-enter-any-place-whatsoever-an-airport-a-bank-a/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“To distract himself, he formulated a proposition. A philosophical proposition? Maybe, but tending towards "weak thought"--exhausted thought, in fact. He even gave this proposition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/to-distract-himself-he-formulated-a-proposition-a-philosophical/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“From the pit of his stomach a violent spasm of nausea rose up and seized his throat. He ran to the bathroom, barely able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/from-the-pit-of-his-stomach-a-violent-spasm-of-nausea-rose-up-and/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“Giulio was against our meeting. He didn't want me getting mixed up in things that, in his opinion, were no concern of mine. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/giulio-was-against-our-meeting-he-didn-t-want-me-getting-mixed-up-in/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/the-memory-of-the-aged-becomes-clearer-and-clearer-with-time-it-has/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/and-in-our-dark-days-with-so-many-threatening-clouds-on-the-horizon/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/but-then-why-when-talking-on-the-phone-did-they-quarrel-on-average-at/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/montalbano-felt-moved-this-was-real-friendship-sicilian-friendship/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/one-cannot-be-held-forever-to-a-less-than-honorable-act-after-a-life/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“Montalbano recalled how in now distant times, when the sea withdrew, it would leave behind only sweet-smelling algae and beautiful shells that were like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/montalbano-recalled-how-in-now-distant-times-when-the-sea-withdrew-it/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) > [“Unwell? I was fine, as good as one might feel in such circumstances. No, my friend, I merely pretended to faint. I'm a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-camilleri/unwell-i-was-fine-as-good-as-one-might-feel-in-such-circumstances-no/) [Andrea Camilleri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-camilleri/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/keeping-eyes/andrea-camilleri/#itemlist", "name": "1 Keeping Eyes Quotes By Andrea Camilleri", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. 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