Dorothy Simpson Quotes

#1. Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide.

Dorothy Simpson

#2. A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.

Dorothy Simpson

#3. Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.

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#4. Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.

Dorothy Simpson

#5. Life is not in the habit of producing just what we want when we want it. For every exciting, challenging task there are usually a hundred dull ones to be tackled."

Detective Thanet- Puppet for a Corpse

Dorothy Simpson

#6. If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

Dorothy Simpson

#7. I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."

-Detective Thanet.

Dorothy Simpson

#8. The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.

Dorothy Simpson

#9. She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.

Dorothy Simpson