11 quotes
"But what is the use of making the world more beautiful if the people who live in it can't love one another?"
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
"Hunch is a good servant but a poor master."
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
"It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
To enjoy the sole attention of one agreeable man and no attention at all from anyone else was all she ever hoped from a party.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
Cordelia was fumbling in her shoulder bag for her own key. As usual the object most required had fallen to the bottom of the bag.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
"If there's any sort of existence after death we shall all know it soon enough. If there isn't, we shan't exist to complain that we've been cheated."
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
"My mother used to say, 'Don't marry for money, but marry where money is! ' There's no harm in looking for money as long as there's kindness as well."
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
It was only in fiction that the people one wanted to interview were sitting ready at home or in their office, with time, energy and interest to spare. In real life they were about their own business and one waited on their convenience.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
Invited by Major Markland to sit, Cordelia perched on the edge of the sofa, half expecting the smooth cushion to let out a rude noise as it subsided beneath her. She found it, however, unexpectedly hard.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
She remembered what Bernie had told her: "In this country, if people won't talk, there's nothing you can do to make them, more's the pity. Luckily for the police most people just can't keep their mouths shut. The intelligent ones are the worst. They just have to show how clever they are, and once you've got them discussing the case, even discussing it generally, then you've got them."
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
There were moments, usually on a sunny Easter morning, when she wished that she could with sincerity call herself a Christian; but for the rest of the year she knew herself to be what she was - incurably agnostic but prone to unpredictable relapses into faith.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)