Quote by Alan Bradley Download Open image ““What else?" Nothing," Dogger said. "Just sign it. "Kings prefer brevity.”” — Alan Bradley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I’d spurned a king and had the nerve to suggest that he turn the other cheek and take it like a champ.” — Amanda Bonilla Copy Share Image
“What will you prefer if you have new king or the king of good times.” — Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature Copy Share Image
“Oh, that,” the king huffs, plopping back down into his chair. “I suppose we’ll give them an allowance, keep them quiet.” “I” — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m’lords,” he thundered. “The King in the North!” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Ian smirked. “Fine. Did we just compromise again?” “We’re fucking compromise experts now.” “We definitely are.” We walked down the hallway hand in hand,… — Megan Erickson Copy Share Image
“No.” She smiled. “I am exactly where I need to be. I have no desire to enter negotiations with Lord Garrett and his heir.”… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.” — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest kings?” My smile widened. “That’s it? Why not the greatest?” “This will only make your arrogance worse, I’m sure.” “Really?… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
“…it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“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
“The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“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