Tom Holt Quotes

No, no,' said Hildy, 'I dig up ancient things buried in the earth. Things that belonged to people who lived hundreds of years ago. As she said this, she began to feel uncomfortable. She had forgotten about the brooch.</br>'Do you really?' said the King. 'We used to call that grave-robbing.

It was, they told him, all part of a concept which was definitely going to be The Future as far as Hell Holdings was concerned.
For reasons he couldn't quite grasp, but which he couldn't help but feel mildly flattering, they were going to call it EuroBosch.

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

The great thing about not necessarily believing in your beliefs is that it’s so much easier to revise them.

...and we have already seen how insurance is like a pyramid - (Huge, incomprehensible, hideously expensive, completely unnecessary and specifically designed only to be of benefit to you once you're dead?)

You want the short version. Okay, then: shit happens. Does that answer all your question? Thought not. Now, if you shut your face and let me tell this my way, we might actually get somewhere. Thank you.

Here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish.

Like, there's these new fundamentalist religious fanatics, some name like Meek Militant Action. Their aim's to inherit the Earth, provided nobody objects.' - c. 12

It’s a basic tenet of military science. No stronghold can be taken if a mule laden with gold bars can leave it unobserved.

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.

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

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Nobody took any notice. Even Jan Christian Duysberg had guessed that one back in the 1740s, and he had been thirty-four years old before he realised he was left-handed.

'Doesn't worry me,' Jane replied, I'm an accountant.

The doctrine of sides," he went on, "states that there is no right or wrong, only different perspectives. From where I stand, such and such a thing looks like a tree; from where you stand, it looks like a rock. For tree and rock, read sin and virtue.