17 quotes
‘I know what is love. Love is man and woman in bed.’
Beds in the East (1959)
Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.
Beds in the East (1959)
Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a man’s life.
Beds in the East (1959)
“You mean,” said ‘Che Ramli, “he is a member of the tribe of the prophet Lot.”
Beds in the East (1959)
Lim Cheng Po, Anglican, Royalist, cricketer, respectable husband and father, allowed his animal reflexes out for an avenue walk on the lead.
Beds in the East (1959)
Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
Beds in the East (1959)
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Beds in the East (1959)
“...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.”
Beds in the East (1959)
There was a certain creative excitement, expressed in glandular constrictions which he knew well.
Beds in the East (1959)
Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.
Beds in the East (1959)
...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....
Beds in the East (1959)
...even the police discussed this violence as possibly coming within the scope of their terms of reference.
Beds in the East (1959)
…a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…
Beds in the East (1959)
...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.
Beds in the East (1959)
…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
Beds in the East (1959)
...the bathroom which Crabbe visited showed signs that Moneypenny now regarded even a lavatory as supererogatory.
Beds in the East (1959)
“…And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest”
Beds in the East (1959)