Flavia De Luce Quotes

#1. Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine.

Alan Bradley

#2. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!

Alan Bradley

#3. The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.
Flavia de Luce

Alan Bradley

#4. Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn't wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce - wouldn't He?

Alan Bradley

#5. The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

#6. The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Georges Bataille

#8. If stupidity were theoretical physics, then I would be Albert Einstein.

Alan Bradley

#9. I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

Jose Bergamin

#11. People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

William Hazlitt

#12. there are many realities

Louise Bourgeois

#13. Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.

Marcel Marceau

#14. I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did.

Alan Bradley

#15. Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.

Alan Bradley

#16. It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Alan Bradley

#17. Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

Karl Popper

#18. I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

Ed Royce

#19. Logan looked up at the big guy. "Do you ever hear yourself?" Blake beamed. "I'm my biggest fan." "Your only fan," Ayden said. "Hurtful, dude.

A&E Kirk

#20. I have to stay here and bury her," he whispered. "Here, between RiverClan and ThunderClan. After this, not even her own Clan will want to mourn her.

Erin Hunter

#21. I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Alan Bradley

#22. The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Mini Grey

#23. First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Anita Roddick

#24. I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

Greg Proops