British Murder Mysteries Quotes & Sayings

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. — Don Marquis

I collect art, and I drink wine ... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself? — Jay-Z

He told me he was used to getting what he wanted. — Celia Conrad

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public. — Mordechai Vanunu

For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them. — Heather Marsh

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine. — Patricia McConnell

If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy — E.J. Eisman

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow."
Her voice held a smile. "So am I — Carrie Vaughn