Leon Garfield > Quotes

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

“Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.”
― Leon Garfield, Smith

“Panic was the death of thought.”
― Leon Garfield, The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris

“Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“The ground before the castle has grown a crop of armed men.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“Tears, like bitter rivers, streamed down his dried-up cheeks, as he stood swaying in his brother's arms.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“The ground before the castle had grown a crop of armed men.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“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.”
― Leon Garfield, Sketches from Bleak House

“It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy...”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories

“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.”
― Leon Garfield, The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris

“He was an old, old man, venerable as a mountain, and with much snow on top.”
― Leon Garfield, Shakespeare Stories