Robert Barr > Quotes

“No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another”
― Robert Barr, Selected Stories of Robert Barr

“It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.

("The Vengeance Of The Dead")”
― Robert Barr, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke”
― Robert Barr, لغز الماسات الخمسمائة

“Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater risks in carrying them out, than any other malefactor on earth.”
― Robert Barr, لغز الماسات الخمسمائة

“The young man went to India, where he was drowned. As there is no mystery in this matter, it may as well be stated here that young Heaton ultimately returned to England, as drowned men have ever been in the habit of doing, when their return will mightily inconvenience innocent persons who have taken their places. It is a disputed question whether the sudden disappearance of a man, or his reappearance after a lapse of years, is the more annoying.

("The Vengeance Of The Dead")”
― Robert Barr, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“When you consider that a human being has the opportunity of being acquainted with only a few hundred people, and out of the few hundred that there are but a dozen or less whom he knows intimately, and out of the dozen, one or two friends at most, it will easily be seen, when we remember the number of millions who inhabit this world, that probably, since the earth was created, the right man has never yet met the right woman.”
― Robert Barr, Out of Thun, and An Alpine Divorce

“The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.

("The Vengeance Of The Dead")”
― Robert Barr, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.”
― Robert Barr, The Second Victorian Mystery MEGAPACK ™

“The old Squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.”
― Robert Barr, 54 Mystery Stories: Collection

“The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude.”
― Robert Barr, The Second Victorian Mystery MEGAPACK ™

“When I say I am called Valmont, the name will convey no impression to the reader, one way or another. My occupation is that of private detective in London, but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valmont was he will likely be able to tell you, unless he is a recent recruit. If you ask him where Valmont is now, he may not know, yet I have a good deal to do with the Parisian police.”
― Robert Barr, ROBERT BARR Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 65+ Detective Stories (Including Eugéne Valmont Mysteries & The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs): Valmont & Kombs Cases

“Naples and die”
― Robert Barr, The Second Victorian Mystery MEGAPACK ™