Alan Bradley Quotes

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• Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
• I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond…
• Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
• It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and…
• I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of…
• If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But…
• Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out…
• To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
• Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
• What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held…
• I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
• If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
• Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
• Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional…
• As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a…
• I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of…
• Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
• The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
• One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was…

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