From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-15:
"In short, [Hannibal] Lecter is and always will be a snob. He is not, whatever his ambitions, a gentleman, partly because he is a homicidal maniac, but also because no gentleman would dream of actually telling you how much he values courtesy." -- Anthony Lane, in a New Yorker review of the novel "Hannibal Rising", by Thomas Harris.
(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)