Philip Kerr Quotes
Top 50 wise famous quotes and sayings by Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.
History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.
He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond's quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock.
When you're working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then.
In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I
I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.
Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.
Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.
Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the
If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.
On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.
When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.
The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.
A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.
That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss.
She was shot dead, in cold blood, he said bitterly. I could see we were in for a long night. I got out my cigarettes.
The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.