Philip

“The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“… behind which the panting dog drooped like a dropped chamois. It was too hot to smoke, but he smoked his pipe anyway. The smoke wreathed a strange smile that Dorrigo later came to realise was fixed; determined to find the world cheery in spite of all the evidence life produced to the contrary.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls