Louis Bayard Quotes

#1. I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.

Louis Bayard

#2. Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Louis Bayard

#3. I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard

#4. You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the ... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it ...

Louis Bayard

#5. After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

Louis Bayard

#6. I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

Louis Bayard

#7. For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.

Louis Bayard

#8. Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Louis Bayard