Wallander Quotes

#1. I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

Henning Mankell

#2. It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Albert Einstein

#3. We all have our peculiarities," said Wallander.

Henning Mankell

#4. Every time Wallander stepped into a strange apartment, he felt as though he were looking at the covers of a book he had just bought. The apartment, the furniture, the pictures on the walls, and the smells were the title. Now he had to start reading.

Henning Mankell

#5. Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought

Henning Mankell

#6. I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.

Kenneth Branagh

#7. An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

Daniel Barenboim

#8. Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

Henning Mankell

#9. Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.

David Lloyd-Jones

#10. No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Seneca The Elder

#11. Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

Henning Mankell

#12. 'What was that?' Wallander said.
[Linda] 'Nothing.'
'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.'
'I didn't say anything.'
'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'

Henning Mankell

#13. The man was an emotional Fort Knox.

Ransom Riggs

#14. We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats ... nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

Henning Mankell

#15. It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.

Henning Mankell

#16. Things are as they are.

Henning Mankell

#17. My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

Carl Sagan