Famous Patricia Highsmith Quotes

  • Honestly, I don’t understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! – Patricia Highsmith

    Honestly, I don’t understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!– Patricia Highsmith

  • Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? – Patricia Highsmith

    Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?– Patricia Highsmith

  • What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? – Patricia Highsmith

    What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?– Patricia Highsmith

  • The justice I have received, I shall give back. – Patricia Highsmith

    The justice I have received, I shall give back.– Patricia Highsmith

  • Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. – Patricia Highsmith

    Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.– Patricia Highsmith

  • Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. – Patricia Highsmith

    Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.– Patricia Highsmith

  • He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. – Patricia Highsmith

    He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.– Patricia Highsmith

  • He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.– Patricia Highsmith

  • Obsessions are the only things that matter. – Patricia Highsmith

    Obsessions are the only things that matter.– Patricia Highsmith

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

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