Crooked House quotes

It is a hothouse of suppressed passion. This is what happens when the person you love the most in the world who you would give your life for is actually the same person that you hate the most.

Lady Edith de Haviland

Chief Inspector Taverner : Charles, you have to understand, I'm under a lot of pressure here. There's politics involved here. It's sensitive. And with your past...
Charles Hayward : I'm sorry? My past? In Cairo. I was a diplomat.
Chief Inspector Taverner : Of course. And I am a duchess.

Charles Hayward

Well, there's always a second murder. Someone who knows something is bumped off before they can reveal what they know.

Josephine Leonides