Louis Tracy > Quotes

“...women are not delicate. I don't know why men invariably harbor that delusion...women are more steadfast, even hardier, than men. That is an essential, don't you see? The continuance of the race depends far more on the female than on the male.”
― Louis Tracy, His Unknown Wife

“But the "little Frenchman" was smiling, too. He had”
― Louis Tracy, 8 British Detective Novels: Box Set

“Providence that I should die in the execution of my duty, I am as content to do so as any soldier upon the battle-field, for it seems to me," he continued half to himself, "that the arrayed enemies of society are more terrible, more formidable, and more dangerous than the massed enemies that a soldier is called upon to confront. They are only enemies for a period; for a time of madness which is called 'war'; but you in your lives are enemies to society for all time.”
― Louis Tracy, 8 British Detective Novels: Box Set

“says, admirably calculated to defeat the testator's”
― Louis Tracy, 8 British Detective Novels: Box Set

“Brett had seen much that is hidden from public ken in the vagaries of criminals, but he had never yet met a man wholly bad, and at the same time in full possession of his senses.”
― Louis Tracy

“Do you really regard Mr. Knapp as crazy?"
Grainger took thought. He was rapidly regaining his stolid good sense.
"No." he admitted, "but he puzzles me. And I simply can't accept his mad notions about stars and planets. A nice figure I'd cut in the witness box if I said I had arrested John Smith for stealing the parson's chickens because the prisoner couln't keep his fingers off another man's fowls when Jupiter was in the ascendant.”
― Louis Tracy