Barbara Cleverly > Quotes

“Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.”
― Barbara Cleverly, Not My Blood

“The best saints swear fluently.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Tomb of Zeus

“But that’s ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!’ ‘If that’s Chepstow he is a lord,’ objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. ‘He’s entitled, you might say.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Blood Royal

“His quick wits, his language skills and personal knowledge of the battle arena brought him success and esteem and his abilities had not gone unremarked when, after the war, he had decided to join the police force.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Damascened Blade

“Money closes more than mouths, it closes”
― Barbara Cleverly, Not My Blood

“Colonial wives had a reputation for being dowdy.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Last Kashmiri Rose

“Why, Sandilands? Why?”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Last Kashmiri Rose

“All women become like their mothers.”
― Barbara Cleverly, Fall of Angels