“Some men would do better to stay poor,” Francesca said. “ Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.” Money Book:Pray for a Brave Heart Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.” WorryDisciplineEmotions Book:Pray for a Brave Heart Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“It seemed monstrous that people who could only afford cheap houses should find themselves automatically surrounded by ugliness.” Poverty InequalityHousing Projects Book:Friends and Lovers Source: Friends and Lovers
“Once Burns had admitted frankly that the most difficult thing he had to learn at Oxford was the English. What was it that David had said last summer? 'We are becoming a nation of professional eccentrics. Foreigners provide us with a stage, and we enjoy our little appearances all the more because we convince everyone, including ourselves, that we don't even notice the audience.” BrexitBritish People Book:Friends and Lovers Source: Friends and Lovers
“He passed the first six houses with sadness rather than distaste. They tried so hard, he thought. The Crescent in Edinburgh had been a row of houses all very much alike, too. But similarity, when it has money behind it, becomes a solid wall of convention, of permanence, even of defiance. Similarity, conceived and born in poverty, becomes an inferiority complex.” Poverty InequalityPoverty And Politics Book:Friends and Lovers Source: Friends and Lovers
“He could hear Matthews saying, 'Worry before, and you'll be prepared. Worry afterwards and you'll keep your feet on the ground. But don't worry during action; that's fatal.” Spy ThrillerEspionage ThrillerSpy NovelSpycraftEspionage NovelsEspionage PhilosophyEspionage Tools Book:Assignment in Brittany Source: Assignment in Brittany
“Streets are like children, David thought; the small ones go to bed first.” City LifeStreet QuotationsStreet QuotesCities Spaces Places Book:Friends and Lovers Source: Friends and Lovers
“He stepped out into the sunny street, a man with a piece of information which he couldn’t get rid of, a man who felt useless because his usefulness couldn’t be used.” UselessUsefulnessRepetitions Book:Pray for a Brave Heart Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“Some day I’ll come back and enjoy this place, he promised himself. And smiled to himself, knowing only too well that life had a way of never giving you the time to come back.” Some Day Book:Pray for a Brave Heart Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man’s language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.” HopeUnfulfilled PromisesSome Day Book:Pray for a Brave Heart Source: Pray for a Brave Heart