Phryne Quotes

#1. Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***

Kerry Greenwood

#2. Miss? Miss Phryne? Are you all right?' 'Come in, Dot. I'm fine. Some son of unmarried parents just tried to kidnap me.' 'What did you do with the body, Miss?

Kerry Greenwood

#3. The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne's virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.

Kerry Greenwood

#4. Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.

Kerry Greenwood

#5. Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.

Kerry Greenwood

#6. She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers.

Kerry Greenwood

#7. Amazement could go no further. If Phryne had ridden in on a unicorn he would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Felmington. Well, no, not a unicorn. Not Phryne. A dragon, perhaps. He was sure that she could tame a dragon.

Kerry Greenwood

#8. She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot's.

Kerry Greenwood

#9. Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can't have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.

Kerry Greenwood

#10. I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.

Kerry Greenwood

#11. Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met before -

Kerry Greenwood

#12. I know that. But here's the thing about baseball, Kitten. There's an expiration date for every single one of us who plays and we all know it. Eventually my baseball career will come to an end, and I can live with that. But I can't live without you.

J. Sterling

#13. ...her hull might be compared to a fat man on the short end of a lopsided seesaw

Philbrick, Nathaniel

#14. There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Marcel Proust

#15. The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing.
Life is simple.
You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead.
I am alive.

Greg Iles

#16. I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

Abbi Jacobson

#17. Leaders should be leading, not hunting around in the weeds for land mines.

Michael Bader

#18. My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#19. Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Eric Liu

#20. Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. This is because our personal genetic tree is not equivalent to our genealogical tree, which is to say that not every one of our direct ancestors has contributed to our genome.

Christine Kenneally

#22. Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Amy Tan