177 quotes found
Novelist · English · 1961
English novelist (born 1961)
“The course of true love rarely runs smooth.”
“Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.”
“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...”
“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, ...”
“There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.”
“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrie...”
“No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though th...”
“Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.”
“Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresom...”
“You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.”
“I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.”
“Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.”
“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundre...”
“Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' sai...”
“Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.”
“Curiosity is a descending stairthat leads to only who-knows-where.”
“Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.”
“My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself th...”
“Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners”
“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”
