Anselm Audley > Quotes

“I have said too much, it is my way. I forget, you English, you like to come at things slowly, little by little, to leave much unsaid.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“Sir Bernard was standing at his big eastern window with his hands behind his back, looking out over the fog. It was his great-man-of-affairs pose,”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“Weaned on a pickle, you were.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“where did anyone in England get the money to spend their life collecting old country stories? Everything seemed to be rationed here, except gossip.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“they settled themselves on deeply uncomfortable chairs in the meeting room.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“a hatch, match and dispatch Anglican,”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“This is Jeremy, he doesn’t talk much.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“If we’re going to get the world running on nuclear power instead of coal one day – and let me tell you, after living in Manchester, that’ll make a big difference to a great many people”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty

“The Selchester police station was like every other in England – square and imposing on the outside, shabby and institutional on the inside.”
― Anselm Audley, A Matter of Loyalty