John Hall > Quotes

“Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.”
― John Hall, Is He or Isn't He?

“For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.”
― John Hall, Is He or Isn't He?

“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our commitment to improving the lot of the disadvantaged of our own day." - The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey, on today’s 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth.”
― Dr. John Hall

“Imagination?’ said Holmes with some annoyance. ‘And are the mere facts not sufficient in themselves? Must they be dressed up with French phrases dimly remembered from one’s distant schooldays and hurriedly – though all too often inadequately – checked with an elementary grammar before dispatch to the publisher?”
― John Hall, Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin

“as Lord Reading, a viceroy of India.”
― John Hall, That Bloody Woman - the turbulent life of Emily Hobhouse: Cornwall's forgotten heroine

“he. ‘I have no doubt that some of them are honest enough by their own lights, that they are motivated by what they see as a genuine desire to change the political system. But on the other hand, I know as a fact that many of them are not, that they are merely cynical opportunists with an eye to their own gain.”
― John Hall, Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin

“Gregson?’ ‘Why, because he ran off”
― John Hall, Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery