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21 " Agatha’s last case had concerned a Sweeny Todd of a murderer over at Winter Parva. "
― M.C. Beaton , Dishing the Dirt (Agatha Raisin, #26)
22 " Good-bye healthy life and hullo rubber knickers and support hose? "
― M.C. Beaton , Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (Agatha Raisin, #11)
23 " By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. —William Shakespeare "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Policeman (Hamish Macbeth, #29)
24 " Look for me by moonlight; Watch for me by moonlight; I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! —Alfred Noyes "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of an Honest Man (Hamish Macbeth #33)
25 " The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Celebrity (Hamish Macbeth, #17)
26 " The cruellest lies are often told in silence. —Robert Louis Stevenson "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Witch (Hamish Macbeth, #24)
27 " The arrest of Fergus Braid struck the village like a bombshell. Lesley, opening the newspaper the next day, found a photograph of him on the front page and a different story on the inside. highland bobby attacked by armed poachers screamed the headline. There was a photograph of Priscilla "
28 " Though the day of my destiny’s over, And the star of my fate has declined. —Lord Byron "
29 " Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. —Philips Brooks "
30 " O fat white woman whom nobody loves —Frances Crofts Cornford "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Glutton (Hamish Macbeth, #8)
31 " To see oneself as one really is—if one is ever unlucky enough to have that experience—is quite shattering. The veil of illusions and little vanities is rudely ripped aside. "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Hussy (Hamish Macbeth, #5)
32 " Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world —Shakespeare "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Nurse (Hamish Macbeth, #31)
33 " A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. —Oscar Wilde "
― M.C. Beaton , Death of a Gentle Lady (Hamish Macbeth, #23)
34 " Only a fool would cry for someone who didn’t really want them. "
― M.C. Beaton , Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery)
35 " Not wi’ news like this. Brace yourself, Bridget, as the Irishman said to his missus by way of foreplay. "
36 " Did I say that?” he asked, and then added in so low a voice that Alice could not hear what he was saying, “If I said that then I am a very great fool indeed. "
37 " Keep your place and silent be, Game can hear and game can see. —Mark Beaufoy "
38 " I mean, that’s the creepy thing about Sutherland when you’re out on your own under the stars. You feel like an intruder. But the birds belong. "
39 " If the chemists could ever come up with a bottle of something labelled ‘Self-Respect’ that actually worked, they could make millions, she thought. "
― M.C. Beaton , A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin, #19)
40 " The wind cut like a knife as he climbed into the police Land Rover. As he held the wheel tightly against the buffeting of the wind and drove along the curving road out of the village, he realized that he had never questioned Mrs. Gallagher’s bitterness. It had simply been one of those unpleasant facts of his existence since he had started policing in Lochdubh. "
― M.C. Beaton , A Highland Christmas (Hamish Macbeth, #15.5)