Top 200 Alan Bradley Quotes (2024 Update)
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Alan Bradley Quote: “The function of a churchyard – and the church itself, to some extent – is to digest the dead: There’s no point in pretending otherwise.”

201. “The function of a churchyard – and the church itself, to some extent – is to digest the dead: There’s no point in pretending otherwise.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Most people probably never stop to think about why our burial places are so green. But if they ever did, their faces might turn the very shade of that graveyard grass, for underneath the picturesque moss and lichen, and beneath all those weathered stones, is a slowly simmering chemical stew, bubbling and burbling away in the dark earth as our ancestors and neighbors, with the help of a little chemistry, are returned to their Maker.”

202. “Most people probably never stop to think about why our burial places are so green. But if they ever did, their faces might turn the very shade of that graveyard grass, for underneath the picturesque moss and lichen, and beneath all those weathered stones, is a slowly simmering chemical stew, bubbling and burbling away in the dark earth as our ancestors and neighbors, with the help of a little chemistry, are returned to their Maker.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Being stumped often offers a whole new beginning. It sometimes generates just enough anger to solve the case.”

203. “Being stumped often offers a whole new beginning. It sometimes generates just enough anger to solve the case.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “If anyone wants me,” I said, “I shall be upstairs, weeping at the bottom of my closet.”

204. “If anyone wants me,” I said, “I shall be upstairs, weeping at the bottom of my closet.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “But it was not to be. I was me... She was she... and the world was the world- as I had sourly suspected all along.”

205. “But it was not to be. I was me... She was she... and the world was the world- as I had sourly suspected all along.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “There wasn’t a schoolboy on the planet – or a man, for that matter – who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact.”

206. “There wasn’t a schoolboy on the planet – or a man, for that matter – who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “I love books where it’s always raining. So much like real life.”

207. “I love books where it’s always raining. So much like real life.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “I’ve always been amazed by the ease with which a stranger’s life can be reconstructed by simply snooping through their belongings. Art and imagination combine to tell a tale that’s more complete than even a fat printed biography could ever hope to equal. And Mr. Denning was no exception: His secrets were laid so bare that I felt I ought to be apologizing.”

208. “I’ve always been amazed by the ease with which a stranger’s life can be reconstructed by simply snooping through their belongings. Art and imagination combine to tell a tale that’s more complete than even a fat printed biography could ever hope to equal. And Mr. Denning was no exception: His secrets were laid so bare that I felt I ought to be apologizing.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “If ever you’re accosted by a man,” she’d said, “kick him in the Casanovas and run like blue blazes!”

209. “If ever you’re accosted by a man,” she’d said, “kick him in the Casanovas and run like blue blazes!”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “The world was changing and I, whatever I was, was changing with it.”

210. “The world was changing and I, whatever I was, was changing with it.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “As I let myself in, my nostrils were filled with musty but pleasant air, as if the books themselves were breathing in their sleep in the unventilated room.”

211. “As I let myself in, my nostrils were filled with musty but pleasant air, as if the books themselves were breathing in their sleep in the unventilated room.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the nursery rhyme riddle is the most basic form of the detective story. It’s a mystery stripped of all but the essential facts. Take this one, for instance: As.”

212. “I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the nursery rhyme riddle is the most basic form of the detective story. It’s a mystery stripped of all but the essential facts. Take this one, for instance: As.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “You’re one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I’d rec’nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.”

213. “You’re one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I’d rec’nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “A few more coarse oaths and my pursuer was gone. I cannot bring myself to record his exact words, but will keep them in mind against the day I can put them to good use.”

214. “A few more coarse oaths and my pursuer was gone. I cannot bring myself to record his exact words, but will keep them in mind against the day I can put them to good use.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “But in the end, when you stop to think about it, we are, after all, no more than mere particles of dust, drifting along together through eternity, and so it is pleasant to think that we have – in this way or that, for better or for worse – reached out and touched one another. That, in the end, is what chemistry is all about, isn’t it?”

215. “But in the end, when you stop to think about it, we are, after all, no more than mere particles of dust, drifting along together through eternity, and so it is pleasant to think that we have – in this way or that, for better or for worse – reached out and touched one another. That, in the end, is what chemistry is all about, isn’t it?”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “It is a well-known fact that the Black Death was brought into England by lawyers.”

216. “It is a well-known fact that the Black Death was brought into England by lawyers.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

217. “Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “It’s things like this that really shake me: sudden terrifying glimpses into the world of being an adult, and they are sometimes things that I am not sure I really want to know.”

218. “It’s things like this that really shake me: sudden terrifying glimpses into the world of being an adult, and they are sometimes things that I am not sure I really want to know.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “She always said she’d prefer to die on her way to the moon than under a runaway bus.”

219. “She always said she’d prefer to die on her way to the moon than under a runaway bus.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn’t like to think that there were – but at the same time I didn’t like to think that there weren’t.”

220. “Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn’t like to think that there were – but at the same time I didn’t like to think that there weren’t.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy’s elephants and causing them to trample him to death.”

221. “Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy’s elephants and causing them to trample him to death.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Call the police! “I’ll do it,” I said. “I know Inspector Hewitt’s number off by heart.” “Very good,” Dogger said. “But before you do, let’s have a quick dekko at the place. This lady isn’t going anywhere.” It was a moment right out of Philip Odell, the famous wireless detective, and I’m afraid I clasped my hands together under my chin. Such moments of bliss were few in my life and I needed to savor them the moment they occurred.”

222. “Call the police! “I’ll do it,” I said. “I know Inspector Hewitt’s number off by heart.” “Very good,” Dogger said. “But before you do, let’s have a quick dekko at the place. This lady isn’t going anywhere.” It was a moment right out of Philip Odell, the famous wireless detective, and I’m afraid I clasped my hands together under my chin. Such moments of bliss were few in my life and I needed to savor them the moment they occurred.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “Feminine intuition is no more than an acceptable excuse for female brains.”

223. “Feminine intuition is no more than an acceptable excuse for female brains.”

— Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley Quote: “It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.”

224. “It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.”

— Alan Bradley

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