Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. - Alan Bradley
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
- Alan Bradley
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. - Alan Bradley
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible … - Alan Bradley
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible …
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 bec… - Alan Bradley
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 bec…
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide. - Alan Bradley
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. - Alan Bradley
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, del… - Alan Bradley
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, del…
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instan… - Alan Bradley
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instan…
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, o… - Alan Bradley
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, o…
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