Verity Bright > Quotes

“I'm not the best at being told what to do. Too much time growing up alone, making up my own rules as I went along, I think”
― Verity Bright, Mystery by the Sea

“Age alone, Chief Inspector, like gender, need never be a barrier but for the prejudice of others”
― Verity Bright, A Lesson in Murder

“One need never be alone if one chooses not to be. It is merely a matter of re-adjusting one's definitions”
― Verity Bright, The French for Murder

“And in these times of increasing equality, it would be churlish having given women the right to vote, not to give them the right to murder. Or at least the equal chance to be considered as a suspect in a murder.”
― Verity Bright, A Very English Murder

“Forgive my ignorance, but I rather thought the point of fashion is that it is entirely useless." His lips quirked. "Otherwise it would be designed for practicality and comfort”
― Verity Bright, A Royal Murder

“I have learned that the scars of lost love can be healed, and one can learn to love again”
― Verity Bright, Mystery by the Sea

“Eleanor sighed, wishing, not for the first time, that she had been born in the future, when society would surely be based on a more equitable footing”
― Verity Bright, Mystery by the Sea

“I tell you Eleanor, I'm glad it's Brice who has him locked up as I fear my temper would beat my professionalism by a very long chalk, likely all the way to my fists!”
― Verity Bright, Murder at the Fair

“But you know how free-spirited my parents were and how... carefree they brought me up abroad. I'm just not used to this suffocating life which revolves around etiquette and rules. I sincerely wish I could set fire to society's rulebook and delight in fanning the flames with unladylike gusto”
― Verity Bright, A Royal Murder

“She threw her hands up. 'Honestly, Clifford, it's uncanny how you understand women. I thought confirmed bachelors were supposed to find us a completely unfathomable mystery.”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“A part of me knew evil only begets more evil”
― Verity Bright, Murder at the Fair

“Remember, darling girl, nerves just mean you are being braver than you've ever been before”
― Verity Bright, A Lesson in Murder

“Even though he was impossibly attractive, on the few occasions she'd met him. she'd found his charms most definitely ended at his appearance; his personality being a poor and ignorant second cousin”
― Verity Bright, Murder at the Fair

“My business is not about lying. It is about squirreling away secrets and then avoiding being caught with them”
― Verity Bright, A Royal Murder

“Because, Lady Swift, trouble follows trouble”
― Verity Bright, A Lesson in Murder

“Dash it, Clifford! If you learn to read my mind any better I'm going to have to think indecorous thoughts just to dissuade you from venturing in there”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Plausible deniability can be a useful tool when facing interrogation from further up the chain of command perhaps, Chief Inspector?”
― Verity Bright, A Lesson in Murder

“Your feet will always bring you to where your heart is.”
― Verity Bright, A Very English Murder

“I know, m'lady. We all want Mr Clifford back where he belongs. But there was nothing achieved on an empty stomach what couldn't have been done twice as well and in half the time as on a full one”
― Verity Bright, The French for Murder

“Always said we should celebrate a person's life, not mourn their passing”
― Verity Bright, Murder at the Fair

“Say nothing. Instead, get yourselves back to Hennelly Towers before you succumb to hypothermia or shock. Since indomitable is not the same as invincible”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Spending one’s day hitting a small wooden ball at a stick should have one labelled as the village idiot. But, add some elegant ladies in posh frocks and gentlemen in blazers and bally heck, it’s a British institution!”
― Verity Bright, Death at the Dance

“Why doesn't life's awkward social situations come with an instruction manual, Ellie!”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Despite her time serving as a nurse during the war and the unnerving number of murders she had become embroiled in, lifeless eyes still made her insides ache with sadness”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.’ ‘Shakespeare?’ ‘Chaplin.’ Eleanor looked confused. ‘Charlie Chaplin, my lady.”
― Verity Bright, A Very English Murder

“We are utterly, utterly lost!"

Lady Eleanor Swift's words cut through the monotonous rhythm of the windscreen wipers.

"If you say so my lady."

Eleanor's piercing green eyes swivelled to her butler as he steadfastly stared forward, steering the Rolls Royce along the inky-black ribbon of water-filled potholes that passed for a road.

"I do actually, Clifford. It's almost midnight, we've been driving for an eternity and, as I said, we find ourselves entirely lost.”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Your staff!? Even with my limited knowledge of how to be a lady of the manor, Clarence' - she ignore Clifford's pointed cough - 'I do at least know staff aren't supposed to dictate things like when their employers have Christmas... Are they?”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“That's a terrifying thought. Me, being an Irish Baronetess. After my rather Bohemian upbringing abroad, I haven't finished wrestling with the intricacies of being a titled Lady of the Manor in rural England yet”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“And why would that be of any interest to me? I prefer straight-talking to double meanings, by the way." - "Me too. But isn't that the trouble with all of us who have even a whiff of Irish descent. We're masters of turning a simple sentence into a confusing riddle”
― Verity Bright, A Royal Murder

“Perhaps not, but errors of judgement founded on noble intentions can never be completely condemned”
― Verity Bright, A Lesson in Murder