# A Good Man in Africa

- Author: [William Boyd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa

## Quotes

> Can't you keep this bloody place tidy?"

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/cant-you-keep.md)

> There are so many hypochondriacs out here. I think Murray can spot them a mile off."

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/there-are-so-many.md)

> Actually I can't stand the man. Sanctimonious, Calvinistic, so-and-so. Totally unsympathetic — can't think why he became a doctor — hectoring, bullying — sort of moral storm-trooper.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/actually-i-cant.md)

> I want you to get to know Murray because I want you to bribe him."

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/i-want-you.md)

> My maid Innocence. She's dead.

p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/my-maid-innocence.md)

> That's Africa for you, eh? Trouble-free sex and tranquillizers. What do they call it? Post-pill paradise or something. Load of nonsense. Never seen a more neurotic, glum bunch in my life.

p. 90 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/thats-africa-for.md)

> Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody’s expansive unmown lawn.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/like-rome-nkongsamba.md)

> Morgan liked to imagine the town as some immense yeast culture, left in a deep cupboard by an absentminded lab technician, festering uncontrolled, running rampant in the ideal growing conditions.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/morgan-liked-to-imagine.md)