Tom Holt Quotes

You’re not supposed to be always on the doorstep clamouring for instructions. Use your discretion and your initiative, they say, that’s why you’re the grade you are. And then, when it all goes wrong, it’s all your fault. What on Earth possessed you to do all that without checking back first? How could you have been so stupid?

Talking to yourself is a sign of madness. Talking to yourself, dead, is class.'

The more he asserted it, the less they believed him, which is human nature for you.

Boamund scratches his head. Imagine a knight by Alma-Tadema who's somehow managed to fall off the picture and is wondering how to get back in without breaking the glass.

Besides, [Saint] George pointed out, dragons burn towns and demand princesses as ransom.
The dragons, referring to the Siege of Jerusalem, the Sack of Constantinople and a thousand years of dynastic marriages, said, Look who's talking.

Nothing helps a lie succeed more than a generous helping of the truth.

But the unforeseen consequences—"
"What consequences?"
"I don't know, I can't foresee them.

I'm an archaeologist,' said Hildy. 'I dig up the past.'
The King raised an eyebrow. 'You mean you refresh old quarrels and keep alive old grievances? Surely not.

In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town these days,they have a bicycle as well.

Here and there a doorway or low arch concealed the occasional mugger, rapist or lawyer.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if isn’t actually there; sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you’ll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you’ve found as what you were looking for.

The King rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to the wizard, who had been sitting outside the circle of the firelight, apparently, trying to find a spell that would make a beer-can magically refill itself.

In the beginning was the Word. Nobody knows what it actually was, although it would be nice to think that it was 'Sorry.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

You twist everything," he said.
"Guilty," I said. "Though I prefer to think of it as a form of art.