A man could go mad, listening to his teeth. His teeth tried to tell him something, but he never listened to them. Whoever said you can’t fool an honest man wasn’t one. … there’s no such thing as too much flattery where mothers are concerned … (MM) Hubert grasped the lapels of his jacket, as if addressing a meeting, and swelled with the urge to communicate, or at least talk at length in the belief that it was the same thing. There may well be tall, slim Hubert, Moist would be the first to agree, but this Hubert was shaped like a proper Hubert, which is to say, stubby and plump. … Hubert is one of those names you can put a shape to. Oh, you can cheat with them but you cannot change their nature.’ (MM) ‘… words are soft and can be pummeled into different meanings by a skilled tongue. ‘An error, sir, is worse than a sin, the reason being that a sin is often a matter of opinion or viewpoint or even of timing but an error is a fact and it cries out for correction.’ (MM) ‘My late husband always said that the only way to make money out of poor people is by keeping them poor.’ (MM) ‘Now, of course, the ability to spin upside down around a pole seems to be sufficient.’ (MM) ‘… a mistress was expected to be a woman of accomplishment in those days.’ She sighed. ‘… people like us always keep at least one inner self for inquisitive visitors, don’t we?’ (MM) Game for anything that doesn’t carry a risk of falling over … (MM) What we have here, he told himself, is a Mk1 Feisty Old Lady: turkey neck, embarrassing sense of humour, a gleeful pleasure in mild cruelty, direct way of speaking that flirts with rudeness and, more importantly, flirts with flirting. People didn’t immediately see him, but they sensed his presence. … his presence was like a lead weight on a rubber sheet. … people lower their voices in the presence of large sums of money. It would be hard to imagine an uglier building that hadn’t won a major architectural award. What harm can it do to find out? It’s a question that has left bruises down the centuries, even more that ‘It can’t hurt if I only take one’ and ‘It’s all right if you only do it standing up.’ (MM) He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like ‘core values’ at him with impunity. And they were dull, which is part of the reason they were meetings.

‘… this may well have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common sense of, perhaps, the average chicken.’ (MM) The only thing he hadn’t done was hornswoggle, and that was only because he hadn’t found out how to. … luck came to those who left a space for it – (MM)Īll the way to Genua there were people who’d been duped, fooled, swindled and cheated by that face.

There are times when ‘It does not get any better than this’ does not spring to mind. …nervousness runs through pigeons faster than a streaker through a convent … (MM)

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