Five quotes make a post

[cimorene]

• "No, sir, that cat won’t jump."
  —R. Austin Freeman, "Pandora's Box"
  


• "He has acted on the assumption that the world contains no one but fools. But that is a fool’s assumption.”
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Green Check Jacket"
  


• "But we mustn’t go beyond our facts, and we mustn’t construct theories from newspaper reports."
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Funeral Pyre"
  


• The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral philosophers who make it their province to discover and expound the glaringly obvious[.]
  —R. Austin Freeman, "The Stranger's Latchkey"
  


• [... ] like most unreasonable beliefs, it was unshakable.
  —R. Austin Freeman, Mr Polton Explains
  

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Pithy!

[cimorene]

He has an admirable skill for sounding pithy.

[jennaria]

I went on an R. Austin Freeman spree a few years back, on account of finding his work on Project Gutenberg. My memory is that it was kinda Victorian C.S.I.

[cimorene]

Yes, he's the originator of the CSI-style subgenre of crime fiction! But Edwardian through the 1930s, not quite Victorian.

[oracne]

This is a good post.

[cimorene]

😂