Kate-griffin Quote by Kate Griffin Download Open image ““Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.”” — Kate Griffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kate-griffin Philosophy Shopping The-midnight-mayor
“A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Be professional, be polite, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” — USMC Rules for Gunfighting 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 a business… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We cannot buy what we need for an ideal life in stores, so we have become habitual shoppers who come up short again and… — Dave Bruno Copy Share Image
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
“The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Solving crimes is as difficult and laborious as committing them, with the difference that the lunch breaks are paid.” — Sascha Arango Copy Share Image
“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“So...I suggest you try and get control over your more unusual nature, see if you can't coax those claws away, and I'll try very,… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates, yes?” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“We...find it hard to conceive of...of a consciousness whose power, intellect and capacity can be both infinite and capable of caring," we replied. "We… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“I looked at Judith. "This sounds strange, but I don't suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“You know, yeah, it seems to me like there are two kinds of chosen one. There's the kinda who gets chosen for a thing… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“It's the new me," I explained, waving my hands jazz-style in greeting. "Matthew Swift, Midnight fucking Mayor - I've got multicoloured highlighters and everything.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“The word spread. It began with the techno-literates: young summoners who couldn’t quite get their containment circles right and who had fallen back on… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough with access… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“I looked at Judith. "This sounds strange, but I don't suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi." "You've seen Star Wars?" "Seen it and denounced it." "You've denounced Star Wars?"… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Whoever had said in the guidebooks that the bum bag was a sensible device against theft had lied; no single item of dressware ever… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
“The majority of the employees here are civilians," explained my Alderman guide/protector/companion/would-be-executioner as we strode without a word to the security guards through the… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image