Quotes from Leon Garfield

Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.

Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.

Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds.

Private enterprise, pursuing as ever quick profits from the vapid tastes of the market-place, eschews judgement, and rather than put its hand in the fire for excellence, puts its head in the rubbish for money. Many and many a fine work has been thus abandoned. 'Alas!' cry the mansion-dwelling entrepreneurs, weeping crocodile tears, 'The money ran out!' But it was not the money; it was the rats.

Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms.

The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men.

And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else.

The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men.

Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed.

He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence.

Bleeding, idleness and mist, he murmured in an unusual mood of poetry. It's like life, isn't it... First the wound, then the resting, and then the uncertainty of it all.

It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense.

He was an old, old man, venerable as a mountain, and with much snow on top.

So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy...