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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) QUOTES

Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) QUOTES

1 " For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control...It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

2 " The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

3 " Fear is the devil to hide. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

4 " dresses, some of the girls in clothes which "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

5 " and faded like a thin ghost into the spring air. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

6 " He was a mild-voiced man with the face of a depressed St. Bernard dog who gave the impression of having wandered into the proceedings by mistake. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

7 " Mrs. Maxie wondered whether anyone could be as stupid as Sir Reynold appeared to be "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

8 " This is a Christian country, my dear brother, and the wages of sin are supposed to be death, not eight bob of the taxpayers’ money. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

9 " No wonder you’re upset then, thought Felix. You never felt a genuine emotion in your life. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

10 " If people died in your house the least you could do was to attend the funeral. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

11 " At the time, of course, the party was both ordinary and rather dull. Three of the guests, Dr. Epps, the vicar and Miss Liddell, Warden of St. Mary’s Refuge for Girls, had dined together too often to expect either novelty or stimulation from each other’s company. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

12 " if his parishioners could not always understand his sermons they were happy enough to accept this as sure evidence of their vicar’s erudition. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

13 " Moral scruples soon give way when it’s a case of another pair of hands at the kitchen sink. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

14 " He was never conscious of pity at moments like this and not even of anger, although that might come later and would have to be resisted. He liked to fix the sight of the murdered body firmly in his mind. This had been a habit since his first big case seven years ago when he had looked down at the battered corpse of a Soho prostitute in silent resolution and had thought, “This is it. This is my job. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

15 " The dinner, like all unsuccessful social occasions, seemed to last three times its normal length. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

16 " The last few days had drained her of so much emotion that this final revelation fell like a hammer on wool. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

17 " Mr. Hinks murmured about the last touches for tomorrow’s sermon and faded like a thin ghost into the spring air. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

18 " Felix Hearne, for one, was not at Martingale that week-end. Yet, in her memory, he too sat at Mrs. Maxie’s table, watching with amused, sardonic eyes the opening antics of the players. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

19 " We stood there hissing insults at each other in whispers and grovelling around in the dust to find his glasses. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

20 " Sitting in deep abdominal distress Martin let his mind rumble on cassoulet de Toulouse and remembered with yearning the poularde en vessu he had first eaten in a modest hotel in the Ardèche. "

― P.D. James , Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)