Phryne's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

Patrick Kane

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

Kerry Greenwood

#5. Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Carl Jung

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

Kerry Greenwood

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

Kerry Greenwood

#8. 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

#9. Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#16. Paid way too much. But when you see a stuffed pelican, you better grab it 'fore somebody else does.
~New Orleans Requiem

D.J. Donaldson

#17. Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

Herman Melville