Some favorite quotes from Mrs Bradley Golden Age detective novels by Gladys Mitchell

[cimorene]

• 'No, don’t fume. It suits your saturnine cast of countenance, but it doesn’t assist a reasoned argument.’


• what people who put cleanliness before godliness call civilisation


• ‘Ver-rey well. It’s a free country—to a certain limited extent.’


• Her clothes were suited to early morning practice in the art, science, metaphysics, and philosophy of driving a motorcycle, but for all other conceivable purposes she judged them singularly inappropriate and decidedly unbecoming.


• “Do use your brains sometimes, dear child,” she said, very kindly. “I know it hurts, but persevere.”