“The press was ruthless, but then so was the church. Flavia de Luce” — Alan Bradley Church Copy Share Image
“The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.” — Alan Bradley Humor 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
“…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.” — Alan Bradley Attention Copy Share Image
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls… — Alan Bradley Bluffing Copy Share Image
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2” — Alan Bradley Angel Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“We Three Kings of Leicester Square, Selling ladies’ underwear, So fantastic, no elastic, Only tuppence a pair.” — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.” — Alan Bradley Dictionary Copy Share Image
“Sanctified cyanide Super-quick arsenic Higgledy-piggledy Into the Soup. Put out the mourning lamps Call for coffin clamps Teach them to trifle with… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse,… — Alan Bradley Curse Copy Share Image
“A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who… — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted… — Alan Bradley Closest friends Copy Share Image
“The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as… — Alan Bradley Humorous Copy Share Image
“I must warn you at the outset that I'm not at my best conversing with little girls," he announced. I bit my… — Alan Bradley Nature Copy Share Image
“Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don't you think?' She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“Look after this girl, Mildred. She's a menace to murderers." A menace to murderers? I quite liked that. If I ever have… — Alan Bradley Business 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 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
“I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a… — Alan Bradley Food 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–” — Alan Bradley Friends Copy Share Image
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. — Alan Bradley Flattery Copy Share Image
“Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.” — Alan Bradley Humour Copy Share Image
“Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.” — Alan Bradley 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/i/e95/alan-bradley-1571_bicycle_sorry-old-girl-i-said-to-my-bicycle-glad_1653870.png)
