“Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.” — Alan Bradley Expressions Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley Ability Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.” — Alan Bradley Experience Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them.” — Alan Bradley Liar Copy Share Image
“as if Mother Nature had nodded off a little, and let the colors leak away. In” — Alan Bradley Leak Copy Share Image
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
“I gave her a partial smile and kept the rest of it for myself...” — Alan Bradley Kept Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — Alan Bradley Friend Copy Share Image
“While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.' In… — Alan Bradley Family Copy Share Image
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. — Alan Bradley Christmas Copy Share Image
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack… — Alan Bradley Broads Copy Share Image
“I realized at once that a great actress can never be greater than when she's starring in her own life.” — Alan Bradley Actress Copy Share Image
“Ned stuck out his calloused fingers and gave my hand a surprisingly gentle shake. It was like shaking hands with a pineapple.” — Alan Bradley Gaze Copy Share Image
“If you’re insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my… — Alan Bradley Personal hygiene Copy Share Image
“Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount… — Alan Bradley Energy Copy Share Image
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never… — Alan Bradley Age Copy Share Image
“I realized with an unexpected shock that without either ale or female within easy reach, Ned was somehow incomplete. Why hadn't I… — Alan Bradley Dr watson Copy Share Image
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it!… — Alan Bradley Chemicals Copy Share Image
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable… — Alan Bradley Baths Copy Share Image
“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever… — Alan Bradley Flavia 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… — Alan Bradley Cruel 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… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so. I wanted… — Alan Bradley Food Copy Share Image
“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave… — Alan Bradley Bicycle Copy Share Image
“I was gazing at a cup of cocoa on my night table. As I focused on the thick brown skin that had… — Alan Bradley Brown skin Copy Share Image
“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get… — Alan Bradley Books 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… — Alan Bradley Damned Copy Share Image
“Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That… — Alan Bradley Diamond Copy Share Image
“But what he said was true enough: I had recently destroyed a perfectly good set of wire braces by straightening them to… — Alan Bradley Humour Copy Share Image
“How I longed to tell her about Harriet—but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain, and I… — Alan Bradley Shattered glass Copy Share Image
“Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?” — Alan Bradley Sweetness Lie Copy Share Image
“Die, witch," I managed, making a cross of my forefingers.” — Alan Bradley Cross Forefingers Copy Share Image
“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.” — Alan Bradley Heaven Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Pride Copy Share Image
“Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.” — Alan Bradley Apart Copy Share Image
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry! — Alan Bradley Chemistry Copy Share Image
“Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.” — Alan Bradley Girl Copy Share Image
“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Commodities Copy Share Image
![“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave you at home." I could see that she was disappointed, even though she managed to put on a brave face. "I need you to stay here as a decoy," I whispered. "When they see you leaning…” quote by Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e95/alan-bradley-1571_bicycle_sorry-old-girl-i-said-to-my-bicycle-glad_1653870.jpg)
