Quotes About Flavia

#1. It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

Alan Bradley

#2. 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

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

Alan Bradley

#4. I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. At least the man had the sense to admit it.

Alan Bradley

#5. And this must be our little Flavia!'
On paper the man was already dead.

Alan Bradley

#6. 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

#7. AND THE PERSON OUTSIDE TO WHOM YOU WERE speaking?" Inspector Hewitt asked. "Dogger," I said.
"First name?" "Flavia," I said. I couldn't help myself.

Alan Bradley

#8. There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

Alan Bradley

#9. 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

#10. Good morning, Flavia, she said at last, but her acknowledgment of my presence came too late for my liking.

Alan Bradley

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

Alan Bradley

#12. You must never be deflected by unpleasantness. I want you to remember that. Although it may not be apparent to others, your duty will become as clear to you as if it were a white line painted down the middle of the road. You must follow it, Flavia.

Alan Bradley

#13. You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself.

Alan Bradley

#14. Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

Flavia Weedn

#15. It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I'd heard or were my ears playing hob with me It was more likely that the sun and the moon should suddenly dance a jolly jig in the heavens than that one of my sisters should apologize. It was simply unheard of.

Alan Bradley

#16. It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.

Flavia Pennetta

#17. If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.

Flavia Weedn

#18. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn

#19. There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.

Flavia Cacace

#20. Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.

Flavia Ida

#21. Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

Alan Bradley

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

Alan Bradley

#23. Blessed are those who see through the eyes of a child

Flavia

#24. Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.

Flavia Cacace

#25. Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

Flavia

#26. As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

Alan Bradley

#27. The things I never said are waiting somewhere-like the things I wanted to do and never did.

Flavia Bujor

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

Alan Bradley

#29. I'll ring for Mrs. Mullet, Feely said, reaching for a velvet pull that hung near the mantelpiece, and which probably hadn't been used since George the Third was foaming at the mouth.

Alan Bradley

#30. Oh, there you are, you odious little prawn...

Alan Bradley

#31. Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Flavia Pennetta

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

Alan Bradley

#33. Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

Flavia Weedn

#34. 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

#35. Some people move our souls to dance.

Flavia Weedn

#36. I had to make water " I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.
"I see " the Inspector said and left it at that.
Later I would have a quick piddle behind the caravan for insurance purposes. No one would be any the wiser.

Alan Bradley

#37. I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy.

Alan Bradley

#38. Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you ...

Flavia Weedn

#39. I never thought I'd go so far. I never thought I'd be a champion. It's a dream come true.

Flavia Pennetta