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Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6) QUOTES

Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6) QUOTES

1 " It’s lovely to go away, but it’s even more wonderful to come home. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

2 " It’s a spy’s search. A male spy, at that.’ ‘How so?’ ‘He kicked the door open when it would have taken him less than a minute to pick the lock. That’s masculine problem-solving. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

3 " With Napoleon. But once they’d got their brief flirtation with world domination out of their system they went straight back to painting on the banks of the Seine and being condescending about everyone else’s cooking. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

4 " Oh no, dear, you’re far too lovely for that. You’ll be the kindly one. They’ll be terrified of you because I’ll spread rumours about you having once killed a man with a pen, but you’ll be winsome and agreeable.’ ‘It was a mechanical pencil and he was trying to shoot you.’ ‘Nevertheless, they’ll be adoring but wary. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

5 " Really, my lady?’ I said. ‘Now? A lecture on fluid dynamics in the middle of a gunfight?’ ‘There’s never a wrong time to learn new things,’ she said. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

6 " The folks at home thought you were dead?’ asked Eleanora. ‘Understandably,’ said Lady Hardcastle. ‘We’d been gone for nearly two years. I think we only trekked a couple of thousand miles, all in all, but there were mountains, jungles, more chaps with sticks – you know the sort of thing. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

7 " and I usually try to put off getting up to face the "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

8 " To tell the truth I’m rather looking forward to silver hair, wrinkles, and the opportunity to be unpardonably rude. We allow our elders much more leeway in that regard, don’t you think? I shall cultivate an air of curmudgeonly cantankerousness and insult my way through society. You shall follow in my wake, apologizing. “I’m so sorry,” you’ll say. “She doesn’t mean any offence, she’s just getting on a bit – you know how they can be at that age. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)

9 " Occam’s Razor and all that: the explanation with the fewest assumptions is more likely to be correct. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)