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1 " Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want. "
― Anna Elliott , Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued (Pride and Prejudice Chronicles, #1)
2 " My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart. "
3 " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young lady of rank and property will have packs of money- or land-hungry suitors yapping around her heels like hounds after a fox. "
4 " It’s just that it seems to me that what is a terrible hardship to one person may seem trivially small to another, but that does not necessarily make the hardship any the less hard to bear for the one who suffers it. "
5 " It crosses my mind to wonder whether anyone has ever compared his speaking habits to the animals on the ark. His statements seem to frequently march two-by-two. "
― Anna Elliott , Remember, Remember (A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery, #3)
6 " Words are strange that way, aren’t they? Your own thoughts can sound unfamiliar and strange when they are out there, spoken in the world, as though they have taken on a life of their own. "
7 " Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l’ennui, le vice et le besoin.” Meaning, of course, Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want. "
8 " Holmes was past master of the vague, open-handed gesture. "
― Anna Elliott , The Return of the Ripper (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #6)
9 " As expected, I heard a cacophony of outraged newspaper rattling and throat-clearing from the reading room as Watson and I passed by. "
― Anna Elliott , The Jubilee Problem (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #4)
10 " She has a way of fixing you with a look that seems to stab clear through to the bone, and always makes me feel as though the words were rocks lodged in my throat. "
11 " Holmes smiled faintly. “You are quite determined to shape me into some semblance of a normal human being. "
12 " We were in the Baker Street sitting room, with an unseasonably cold rain splattering against the windows and turning the city outside into a grey, dreary mess of snarled traffic and muddy streets. The setting reflected the mood of all three of us. "
13 " I do love dancing. I even like going to balls. It’s just the thought of one being given in my honour … of so many eyes being on me throughout the evening … of having to talk to so many people I don’t know very well, and having the whole assembly of guests look on while I lead in the first dance that makes me feel ice-cold. "
14 " Attempts to destroy the government of England apparently brought out the full force of governmental bureaucracy in the aftermath. "
15 " What was that very colourful American expression I heard you employ the other day? Ah, yes. If it resembles a duck and vocalizes in the manner of a duck, one may be reasonably justified in assuming it to be a member of the anatine family. "
16 " my curtains were drawn against the fog that crawled through the London streets outside. "
― Anna Elliott , Death at the Diogenes Club (Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #5)
17 " Friday 22 April 1814 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young lady of rank and property will have packs of money- or land-hungry suitors yapping around her heels like hounds after a fox. "
18 " The route that Becky takes me on is convoluted enough to make an entire fleet of cartographers beg for mercy. "
19 " I doubt that there’s much to interest you about the business,” Lestrade went on. “Seems a clear-cut case, no mystery about it.” “I am delighted to hear you say so. Nothing gives me more assurance that the truth about this affair will prove to be quite the reverse. "
20 " thinking machine "
