Author of quotes: Alan Bradley. Page 2

One of the aspects of poisons, which often do not pay attention, is fun when secretly gloat, knowing how to use it.

Chemistry is such a solitary occupation that the greatest moments ever no audience.

I guess I should have said something gentle, soothing. But I didn't. I did so, as would any sensible girl in my circumstances: ran off.

Why, I thought, <...> the easiest way to lie where the case involved feelings?

The word "actually" like their relatives "frankly speaking", should themselves be for people familiar with that now followed by an outright lie, but somehow it is not.

The unwritten law of the universe States that what you seek is always in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to put in there not poisons, and of course, it worked in this case.

As you know, miss Flavia, my memory is not the same as before.
- Nothing, nothing, Dogger, ' I replied, patting him on the palm of your hand. Mine too. Why, just yesterday I was holding a pinch of arsenic and somewhere to put it. And for God's sake, can't remember what I did to him.
- I found it in the Cup, said Dogger.

From "book of Golden rules Flavia": if you are caught swearing, press on pity.

Brains and morals have nothing to do with each other. Take me, for example: it is often said that I have a brilliant mind, but my brains are often busy inventing new and interesting ways to cause my enemies to sudden, painful death with vomiting and convulsions.

If he expects I will argue, he will have to wait until you are cows in maroon pajamas.

Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.

Happens to be fathers with a brood of daughters sorted out their names in order of birth when they want to get younger, and I've been used to, when I refer to "Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it".