Jack Higgins > Quotes

“I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound. ”
― Jack Higgins

“May you find what you are searching for, my friend.
– I already have and lost it in the finding.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.”
― Jack Higgins, The Judas Gate

“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short and unhappy life it’s never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“I would be obliged if you would simply sit in the corner and listen. Or are the Irish incapable of such a feat?’ ‘Oh, it’s been known,’ Devlin said. ‘But not often.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“Very convenient. Anything else?’ ‘Not really. I’m sure, for instance, that you haven’t the slightest interest in a Berger International flight into the Isle of Man, carrying one Marco Rossi.’ Dillon laughed. ‘Well, imagine that.’ ‘If it’s a sea voyage he’s planning, he’s in for a rough ride. Tomorrow and tomorrow night, there’ll be rain squalls and high seas. You’ll know you’re out there!’ ‘Should be interesting.’ ‘Do you have a game plan, Sean?’ ‘Yeah, the game plan is to blow the hell out of the Mona Lisa and deposit two million quid’s worth of arms on the floor of the Irish Sea.’ ‘What about the crew? I’ve got a Captain Martino listed here and five others: Gomez, Fabio, Arturo somebody, an Enrico, a Sancho. You’re going to kill them all, Sean?’ ‘Why not? They’re a reasonable facsimile of scum. They’ve run everything from heroin to human beings, I’m told, and now arms. They shouldn’t have joined if they didn’t want the risk.’ ‘Fine by me. I’ll stay in touch. Speak to you tomorrow.’ ‘Good, but stay on the Berger case. I’m convinced Rossi was responsible for Sara Hesser’s death.’ ‘I’ll see what I can do.’ Oban was enveloped in mist and rain. Beyond Kerrera, the waters looked disturbed in the Firth of Lorn, and clouds draped across the mountain tops. ‘I’ve said it before,’ Billy moaned. ‘What a bloody awful place. I mean, it rains all the bleeding time.’ ‘No, Billy, it rains six days a week.’ Dillon turned to Ferguson. ‘Am I right, General?’ ‘You usually are, Dillon.’ ‘Good. Please join me in the wheelhouse.’ There was a flap to one side of the instrument panel and he pressed a button. Inside was a fuse box and some clips screwed into place. He opened one of the weapons bags, took out a Browning with a twenty-round magazine protruding from its butt. He clipped it into place and added a Walther in the other clips. ‘Ace in the hole.’ He closed the flap. ‘My goodness, you do mean business,’ Ferguson said. ‘I always did, Charles. Now let’s go ashore and eat.’ The early darkness of the far north was against them”
― Jack Higgins, Bad Company

“I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“shoulder again and she was laughing. “You can rot in hell, Dillon.” Dillon said, “For God’s sake, no,” and half-slipped to the floor. “Now don’t be silly, old friend, make it easy on yourself. Just get up.” Which Dillon did, at the same time he was drawing the Colt from the ankle holster, ramming the muzzle into the side of Rupert Dauncey’s head, and pulling the trigger. There was an explosion of bone fragments and blood, the hollow point cartridge doing its work, and Dauncey dropped the Walther and fell back against the side of the door. Dillon pushed and sent him out into space. He grabbed at the Airstair door and closed it. He turned and found that Kate Rashid had put the Eagle on automatic and was reaching for her purse. She took out a small pistol, but he lunged, wrestled it from her, and tossed it to the back of the plane. She was hysterical with rage and”
― Jack Higgins, Midnight Runner

“Sister Katherine smiled. ‘Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.”
― Jack Higgins, Luciano's Luck

“She was aware that she was close to tears and her stomach was hollow with excitement, throat dry. Coup de foudre, the French called it. The thunderclap. The best kind of love of all. Instant and quite irrevocable”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox

“My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“Just like Adolf Hitler, when you think of it. The villain who is so outrageous that you can laugh at him becomes tolerated by the public.
Which is when he becomes most dangerous[...]”
― Jack Higgins, A Devil Is Waiting

“Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.”
― Jack Higgins

“Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox

“That’s”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox: The most daring escape of the Second World War

“A true man controls his environment, subject to no obsessive desires.”
― Jack Higgins, In the Hour Before Midnight: A Thriller

“a”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox

“mind and went”
― Jack Higgins, Thunder Point

“Someone once unkindly said that when people die in Morecambe, they don’t bury them, they simply sit them up in the town bus shelters to make the place look busy.”
― Jack Higgins, Touch the Devil (Liam Devlin #2

“A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“A raving loony. She must be,” Billy”
― Jack Higgins, Midnight Runner

“snow. At”
― Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange

“string. There was a roast lamb to”
― Jack Higgins, The Judas Gate

“No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps.”
― Jack Higgins, Solo

“forage cap slanted to his left eye and the”
― Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed

“Sophie said. “SS and Gestapo are devils, but they frighten the hell out of the ordinary German soldier as much as they do anyone else. In any case, we’ve got those among our own people who are as bad as the Gestapo. Daman’s milice. Frenchmen who work with the Nazis to betray Frenchmen.” “That’s terrible,” Sarah said. “It’s life, child, and what it means is you can never really trust anyone. Now get dressed and come downstairs and we’ll have some”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox

“and closed his eyes, thinking about it.      ”
― Jack Higgins, The Wolf at the Door