Carola Dunn > Quotes

“One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.”
― Carola Dunn, The Bloody Tower

“crowned with a spinney. More”
― Carola Dunn, Sheer Folly

“Gentlemen, for all their talk of honour, really had the oddest morals.”
― Carola Dunn, Miss Hartwell's Dilemma

“Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one’s acquaintance.”
― Carola Dunn, The Bloody Tower

“That generation’s shibboleths—well, you know. What”
― Carola Dunn, Gunpowder Plot

“Ah," said Tom, "there's many a twist between handcuff and wrist."

Daisy laughed. "Don't count your villains until they're catched," she said.”
― Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder

“by Saturday,”
― Carola Dunn, Anthem for Doomed Youth

“rubicund face”
― Carola Dunn, Requiem for a Mezzo

“Coconut shies and”
― Carola Dunn, Dead in the Water

“embonpoint.”
― Carola Dunn, Sheer Folly

“Assuming they’re really Albert’s sons, they’re the present earl’s first”
― Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder

“some sort of havey-cavey business where”
― Carola Dunn, Black Ship

“muniments room. Toodle-oo.”
― Carola Dunn, Sheer Folly

“walnut kneehole desk. It”
― Carola Dunn, Gunpowder Plot

“I might as well enjoy today,” she said to Daisy. “The bridge between laughing and crying’s not long.”
― Carola Dunn, Heirs of the Body

“tittupped after her.”
― Carola Dunn, Gunpowder Plot

“Sarky beast,” said”
― Carola Dunn, The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

“I’m as broadminded as the next person, I hope, but at my age thirty miles an hour and actresses all in one day is rather too much of a good thing.”
― Carola Dunn, Miss Primrose and the March of Progress

“While she admired those who excelled, she considered sports a torture to be avoided if at all possible.”
― Carola Dunn, Dead in the Water

“still in use though coeval with the old house. Then”
― Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder

“Manfully, Alec manned the boathook.”
― Carola Dunn, Dead in the Water

“impecunious phases.”
― Carola Dunn, Requiem for a Mezzo

“Norville invited him in the first place.”
― Carola Dunn, Mistletoe and Murder