More quotes by Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth."
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."
"Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all."
"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."
"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."