Author: Kerry Greenwood

Cites

• Wallace Stevens (1)
  • IN: Cocaine Blues (1989) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Will go, like the centre of sea-green pomp ... upon her irretrievable way.
    FROM: The Paltry Nude Starts on a Voyage, (1919), NULL, US
• John Dryden (1)
  • IN: Murder and Mendelssohn (2013) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: As from the pow'r of Sacred Lays The Spheres began to move; And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above; So, when the last and dreadful Hour This crumbling Pageant shall devour, The TRUMPET shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And MUSICK shall untune the Sky.
    FROM: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, (1687), Poem, UK
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: Blood and Circuses (1994) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: People must be amused, Squire... they can't always be a-working, nor yet they can't always be a-learning. Make the best of us, not the worst.
    FROM: Hard Times, (1854), Novel, UK
• Cole Porter (1)
  • IN: Flying Too High (1990) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Flying too high with some girl in the sky Is my idea of nothing to do But I get a kick out of you
    FROM: "I Get a Kick Out of You", (1934), Song, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Unnatural Habits (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorance of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As would make the angels weep.
    FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Death at Victoria Dock (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Daniel come to judgement! Yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
    FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Castlemaine Murders (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The love of money is the root of all evil.
    FROM: Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10, (100), Bible, NULL
• Brian Walker (1)
  • IN: Away with the Fairies (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The strong subject, nonwithstanding the efforts against him, survives and acquires fresh vigour. The people again cherish their sovereign, and the plotters have wrought their own overthrow.
    FROM: The I Ching Book of Changes, (-925), NULL, US
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Murder in Montparnasse (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Paris is a moveable feast.
    FROM: A Moveable Feast, (1964), Book, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Queen of the Flowers (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Le bon Papa est capable du tut (the good father is capable of anything).
    FROM: French Proverb, (None), Proverb, France
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: Death by Water (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
    FROM: On Revenge, (1625), Essay, UK