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Donna Leon Quotes

Donna Leon quotes

American Author September 29, 1942

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Donna Leon quote: "You really love to gossip, don't you? he asked, wishing she..."
You really love to gossip, don't you? he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. Donna Leon
He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as “the common good”. The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a... Donna Leon
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. Donna Leon
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity."
How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity. Donna Leon
Vianello had the knack of getting people to talk. Especially if they were Venetians, the people he interviewed invariably warmed to this large, sweet-tempered man who gave every appearance of speaking Italian reluctantly, who was only too glad to lapse into their common dialect, a linguistic change that often carried its speakers along to unconscious revelation. Donna Leon
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. Donna Leon
Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had been thinking about at that moment convinced him, though a thousand things had already done so, that this was the woman he wanted to marry, had to marry, would marry. Donna Leon
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him. Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any..."
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic..."
Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ... Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do..."
Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military. Donna Leon
Donna Leon quote: "I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going..."
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. Donna Leon

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