Quotes by : Patricia Highsmith

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly....

I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been....

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with my....

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take....

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt....