S.W. Perry > Quotes

“Is that what these people were – small-time crooks who’d somehow got their hands on a whole country?”
― S. W. Perry, Berlin Duet

“generosity always has a sliding rate of exchange.”
― S.W. Perry, The Sinner's Mark

“Some people have a tendency to dip their tongues in a pot of foolishness before they speak, Ned. Most don’t mean it.”
― S.W. Perry, The Saracen's Mark

“That man says he’s spreading God’s word. But if you care for my opinion, words from the wrong mouth may carry poison just as easily as they may carry the promise of salvation.”
― S.W. Perry, The Sinner's Mark

“they weren’t the first people to vote for a politician with a loud voice and the wrong answers. And they won’t be the last.”
― S.W. Perry, Berlin Duet

“Nicholas listens with a sense of mounting intrigue. In the Jackdaw, gossip about affairs of state flows as fast as the mad-dog and knock-down. But it’s ignorant gossip. Wild speculation. Downright untruths. To hear from informed men so close to power is intoxicating. Men such as these are not bystanders, helplessly watching the world unfold. They change its very course. But”
― S.W. Perry, The Saracen's Mark

“Some people have a tendency to dip their tongues in a pot of foolishness before they speak,”
― S.W. Perry, The Saracen's Mark