Quotes by : Donna Leon

I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that....

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another....

..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all....

Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they....

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take....

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it....

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did....

Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.