Anthony Wynne > Quotes

“the manner of a fool, when it covers the thought of a wise man, is an advantage of incalculable worth.”
― Anthony Wynne, Murder of a Lady

“a man who habitually starves any social instinct loses something of the completeness of his character.”
― Anthony Wynne, The Double-Thirteen Mystery: A Dr Hailey Detective Novel

“you find me in one of my fits of idleness. For some reason which I have never fathomed, the more I have to do, the less I feel inclined to do it.”
― Anthony Wynne, The Mystery of the Evil Eye: A Dr Hailey Detective Novel

“The truth was that women asked of life more than men asked. They demanded a continuity of emotional experience which it lay beyond the mental equipment of most husbands and lovers to supply. That was the explanation of half the bitterness and quarrelling in the world.”
― Anthony Wynne, The Double-Thirteen Mystery: A Dr Hailey Detective Novel