Alan Hunter > Quotes

“There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“He witnessed the persistent operation of self and class interests. He saw how truth could be muzzled, facts distorted, justice mocked in the name of expediency.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“didn’t know about the first once or twice. After that,”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“Did nobody spank their children these days?”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“We’re all a rum lot, bor . . . there i’nt much t’chewse atween us,’ he replied.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“Not once they have become inoculated with creeds of this description,’ sneered the chief super. ‘They become intoxicated, Sir Daynes. They become tipsy with the most dangerous brand of aggrandizing delusion – political idealism. It means nothing for them to kill, and a triumph for them to die. We know these people. You had better let us handle them.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“He glanced curiously at the men who fed the lusting blades. They could not but be changed, he thought, they must partake of that feeling to some extent: become potential destroyers, or self-destroyers.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“there are few situations which reveal a man’s character and personality so strongly as the occupancy of a witness-box.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“Waking up to rain filled him with a sort of hopelessness, a feeling that here was a day to be got over and dismissed as quickly as possible, a day when all normal business ought to be postponed.”
― Alan Hunter, Gently Does It

“Dutt made a hissing sound. ‘No doubt”
― Alan Hunter, Gently By The Shore

“it’s only a failure who would kill!”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus

“Society’s crude, you know . . . it’s a brutal piece of work!”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus