"Curtain" Quotes
A retired detective must solve a murder before he succumbs to his own impending death.
mystery | 215 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers, lose them with a vengeance.
Sometimes one can see things so clearly... that one becomes blind.
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools!
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner.
