Ruth

“Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can’t have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not ‘concerned citizens’, it’s our responsibility and ours alone,” McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“Gentlemen, for all their talk of honour, really had the oddest morals.”
― Carola Dunn, Miss Hartwell's Dilemma

“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal