Flavia Quote by Alan Bradley Download Open image ““Oh, there you are, you odious little prawn...”” — Alan Bradley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flavia
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“Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails.… — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
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“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
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“If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be--Porcelain and I… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with our blood… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.… — Alan Bradley 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 ledges where… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I waved my hand like a frantic dust mop fingers spread ludicrously wide apart as if to say “What jolly fun ” What I… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“It’s not polite to ask ” he said with a slight smile. “One must never ask a policeman his secrets.” “Why not ” “For… — Alan Bradley 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 staring in… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me It was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I'll ring for Mrs. Mullet," Feely said, reaching for a velvet pull that hung near the mantelpiece, and which probably hadn't been used since… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
