Heron Carvic Quotes & Sayings

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say. — Heron Carvic

Not to say surprise no. Too smooth by half I've always thought him. — Heron Carvic

I mean it, it's another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you'll get nowhere as a detective. She's everybody's conscience, Bob - the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity's backbone. Throughout history, she's gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else. — Heron Carvic

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue. — Heron Carvic

So many writers had grown lyrical over spring. And, one must admit, it was easy to love a lamb: but how soon that engaging frivolity would yield to the placid idiocy of its inheritance; it was not easy to love a sheep. Summer? Yes, but it was overweighted, overcolored. No - for herself she preferred late autumn, when line returned, with wider, subtler blends of color and experience. — Heron Carvic