Carole Nelson Douglas > Quotes

“Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Red Hot Rage

“What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas

“Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Good Morning, Irene

“Consider the cartoon character of Betty Boop.” “The baby-voiced twenties flapper with the huge eyes and the spit curls…boop-boop-a-doop?” “The cartoon was based on a singer named Helen Kane, but Kane grabbed her share of glory by imitating another singer, Annette Hanshaw. Both Kane and Hanshaw are pop culture footnotes today, almost a hundred years later, but Betty Boop has become a commercial icon of the flapper and lives on in cheesy merchandise everywhere.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Dancing With Werewolves

“At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world.
--Midnight Louie”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Catnap

“Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls’ dressing room to the owners’ penthouse. However, the newcomer—who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night—is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors

“reflected from a diamond shape of tiny white shark’s teeth.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors

“You must have... loathed what became of science in Germany."
"I wanted nothing to do with this drive toward the impossible, these speculations. The Frankenstein myth. He, too, was German. But it is not just Germans, not simply the convenient excuse of a Hitler. That is why I tell you: if they want Jane Doe, they will take her. They always have.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Probe

“As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors

“Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me--what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Good Morning, Irene

“Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors

“information for you. It will be graphic. The pill didn’t agree with”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in an Alphabet Endgame

“Money may not be everything, but it’s a pretty good cure for poverty.”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors

“One”
― Carole Nelson Douglas, Killer Tails: 8 Pawsome Cat & Dog Cozy Mysteries by 8 Bestselling Authors