Tom Holt Quotes

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

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

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

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

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention’s father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn’t been heard of since.

As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. “Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you can call me Albert.

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.