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
“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 any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
...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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic…” quote by Sarah Caudwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/184/sarah-caudwell-36161_casts_you-will-be-interested-to-hear-hilary-th_2651362.jpg)
