Hawkshaw Detective Quotes

#1. And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed it clean on the floor.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. He believed that there was need in the world for a class freed from the handicap of law and morality, a class acutely adaptable and immoral; a class bent on achieving, not the equality of all men, but the production, at the top, of the superman.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Vain until the bitter end.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [ ... ] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

Carey Wallace

#5. I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does.

Antonio Gramsci