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Top 30 Philip Kerr Quotes (2025 Update)

Philip Kerr Quote: “Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, you find out that they’ve always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.”

1. “Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, you find out that they’ve always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Sometimes I think God is just the devil pretending to be nice.”

2. “Sometimes I think God is just the devil pretending to be nice.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope.”

3. “Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “But nothing surprises me now. I’ve grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.”

4. “But nothing surprises me now. I’ve grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “A lot of police work is police idle, police baffled, police at breakfast, police at lunch, police drinking coffee – if there is any coffee – and always police staring out of the window, assuming there is one.”

5. “A lot of police work is police idle, police baffled, police at breakfast, police at lunch, police drinking coffee – if there is any coffee – and always police staring out of the window, assuming there is one.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Youth is no longer wasted on the young because it’s wasted on the war instead.”

6. “Youth is no longer wasted on the young because it’s wasted on the war instead.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.”

7. “His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Believe me, I know a lot about harm’s way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you’re least expecting it.”

8. “Believe me, I know a lot about harm’s way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you’re least expecting it.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “I solve this kind of case all the time. Usually in the penultimate chapter. I like to keep the last few pages for restoring some sort of normality to the world.”

9. “I solve this kind of case all the time. Usually in the penultimate chapter. I like to keep the last few pages for restoring some sort of normality to the world.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.”

10. “Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “There is evil in the best of us, of course; but perhaps just a little bit more in the worst of us.”

11. “There is evil in the best of us, of course; but perhaps just a little bit more in the worst of us.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.”

12. “Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance.”

13. “A man might think he can stare into the abyss without falling in but sometimes the abyss stares back. Sometimes the abyss exerts a strange effect on your sense of balance.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “In case you’ve forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.”

14. “In case you’ve forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.”

15. “This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.”

16. “Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who’s in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.”

17. “Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who’s in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It’s only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The.”

18. “All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It’s only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”

19. “On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she’d evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she’s applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.”

20. “The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she’d evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she’s applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “At least that was what she had told me. You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don’t tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.”

21. “At least that was what she had told me. You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don’t tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world’s last banana.”

22. “Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world’s last banana.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.”

23. “A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.”

24. “My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That’s.”

25. “Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That’s.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you’re a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you’re not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.”

26. “The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you’re a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you’re not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “This is the country for cruel experiments – it’s where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport.” With.”

27. “This is the country for cruel experiments – it’s where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport.” With.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “One day I hoped some thoughtful historian would point out the close connection between the Mercedes-Benz motor car and Germany’s favorite dictator and that the Lord would find a way to pay these bastards back for their help in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there.”

28. “One day I hoped some thoughtful historian would point out the close connection between the Mercedes-Benz motor car and Germany’s favorite dictator and that the Lord would find a way to pay these bastards back for their help in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.”

29. “Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.”

30. “Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn’t need my help, it wasn’t very heavy.”

31. “Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn’t need my help, it wasn’t very heavy.”

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Philip Kerr Quote: “I’d been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that’s where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can never be absolutely sure about these things.”

32. “I’d been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that’s where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can never be absolutely sure about these things.”

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