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1 " He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ... "
― Philip Kerr , The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)
2 " All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It’s only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The "
3 " True decadence involves taking nothing too seriously, "
4 " Diz-se que a loucura é simplesmente a capacidade de ver o futuro. E se soubéssemos agora o que saberemos então, provavelmente seria suficiente para nos pôr a todos aos gritos. Na vida, o segredo é manter as duas coisas separadas o maior tempo possível. "
5 " Um bom polícia continua a ser um bom polícia, mesmo que seja um sacana nazi. "
6 " O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia. "
7 " I’ll be honest,” I said. “I don’t like it one little bit. But I’m delighted to see it exhibited without any interference from people who know as little about art as I do. Looking at it is like looking inside the head of someone who disagrees with you about nearly everything. It makes me feel uncomfortable.” I shook my head sadly and sighed, “That’s democracy, I guess.” Another "
8 " If there’s one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it’s dangerous to believe in anything very much. "
9 " A essência do engano não é a mentira que se diz, mas as verdades que se contam para a apoiar. "
10 " Obedeci. Gosto de obedecer quando está em causa uma mulher interessante. "
11 " Era típico de uma prostituta arranjar um nome pomposo. Havia alturas em que pensava que a única razão por que as raparigas entravam neste ramo de actividade era para arranjarem um nome novo e bonito. "
12 " If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” heopined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic drink. It makes people sleepy and complicit. Beer just makes them argumentative. And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink a lot of wine? Roman Catholic.”“What about the Russians?” I asked. “They drink vodka.”“That’s a drink to help you find oblivion,” said Father Bandolini. “Nothingto do with God at all. "
13 " I tell you that PFC Ivanov has made a number of allegations regarding the treatment of Red "
14 " Do you have a mother?” “Naturally I used to have one,” I said. “A father, too, if memory serves. Only somewhere along the way I seem to have lost them both. Careless of me. "
15 " Then the green curtain in the confessional twitched and was drawn back, and a good-looking woman of about thirty stepped out. She was holding a rosary, crossing herself more for form’s sake than anything else. She was wearing a tight red dress and it was easy to see why she had spent such a long time in the confessional. From the look of her, none of the venial sins would have detained her. She was built for just the one kind of sin, the mortal kind that cried aloud to heaven when you managed to touch her in the right places. "
