Gerald Verner > Quotes

“nothing is more conducive to depression than loss of sleep.”
― Gerald Verner, The Complete Trevor Lowe Series

“Love was only a synonym for sex; loyalty to anything was regarded as a joke; kindness, a weakness. They had no standards—nothing except an undisciplined gratification of their emotions of the moment.”
― Gerald Verner, The Detective Budd Classic Mysteries Books 11-19

“Psychologists have stated that the human brain is incapable of holding two troubles at the same time and giving an equal amount of attention to each. The greater worry will invariably overcome the lesser,”
― Gerald Verner, Mr. Budd Novelettes Stories of Crime and Detection Volume One (contains Sinister House and M r K): Vintage Crime Library

“if you looked in a mirror. Arbinger came because he’s had a threatenin’ letter.” He explained, and had just finished when there came a tap on the door and a messenger appeared with a report from the Fingerprint department. The test had revealed two sets of prints and a smudged impression of a thumb in the top left-hand corner.”
― Gerald Verner, The Silver Horseshoe

“Always worse for the people who are left, you know. They’ve got to go on living.”
― Gerald Verner, The Detective Budd Classic Mysteries Books 11-19