Gavin Lyall > Quotes

“You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.”
― Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game

“The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.”
― Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game

“I mean, any film producer would have snapped him up as the noble young Wehrmacht officer who gets shocked by what the SS is up to but soldiers loyally on until he stops a burst from a tommy-gun in the stomach—it’s always the stomach—and dies nastily. Very moral. And maybe it really would have happened to Paulus if he hadn’t missed the war by a good ten years.”
― Gavin Lyall, Venus With Pistol

“gunners watched and automatically”
― Gavin Lyall, The Secret Servant: A Gripping Spy Action Crime Thriller From a Master of the Spy Novel

“I’d been right about him being big; he was built like a Russian war memorial”
― Gavin Lyall, Venus With Pistol

“One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.”
― Gavin Lyall

“Funny thing; art must’ve been a hell of an important and popular thing, hundred and more years ago, for so many people to have churned out so much bad stuff. Now it’s television and books. Funny.”
― Gavin Lyall, Venus With Pistol