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1 " Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question. "
― Colin Watson , Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
2 " To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime. "
― Colin Watson
3 " Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing. "
4 " proaching "
― Colin Watson , Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough, #1)
5 " enployee, "
6 " The dark laminated strands heaved, separated and became fiery filaments, then grey stamens of ash upon a glowing corolla. "
― Colin Watson , Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3)
7 " Mr Chubb did not so much mind his subordinates being impertinent–that was, after all, a form of acknowledging inferiority; what he dreaded was that any of them might say something really funny without his recognising it. "
