Quotes from Jack Higgins

up to fifty thousand pounds for Miller's death."     VOLKOV OBVIOUSLY CALLED the Broker about it, too, because it wasn't much more

No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He

Just like Adolf Hitler, when you think of it. The villain who is so outrageous that you can laugh at him becomes tolerated by the public. Which is when he becomes most dangerous[...]

Selim?" "Dropped in at Kuwait twelve hours ago, collected his car and set off north. It's a long, hard drive to Baghdad these days, Sean. Sharif is meeting you at the hotel early evening." "Thanks." "Have fun." Dillon replaced the phone. Billy said, "What was that?" Dillon told him. Billy was highly amused. "What are we going to do about Novikova? Have a drink in the bar?" "Who

and remember what Somerset Maugham said. 'To dine well in England it's necessary to have breakfast three times a day.

dropped into France to organize the Maquis in the Vosges Mountains. He did damned well

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He produced a black plastic box with a

Someone once unkindly said that when people die in Morecambe, they don't bury them, they simply sit them up in the town bus shelters to make the place look busy.

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.

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string. There was a roast lamb to

forage cap slanted to his left eye and the

His barge has obviously been spirited away by Charles Ferguson, who has also had his criminal

and closed his eyes, thinking about it.      

stomach as he stood to the side.

No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps.

I would be obliged if you would simply sit in the corner and listen. Or are the Irish incapable of such a feat?' 'Oh, it's been known,' Devlin said. 'But not often.

I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend. – I already have and lost it in the finding.

Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.

Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.