Will Thomas > Quotes

“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“I'm thinking that, collectively, men are only slightly more observant than mollusks.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”
― Will Thomas

“Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”
― Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry

“No one in the history of mankind has ever uttered, “Oh, it’s Monday! At last!”
― Will Thomas, Blood Is Blood

“One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.”
― Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry

“I could smell the sharp tang of sea air, which always sounds better than it really is, a mixture of salt, seaweed, and dead fish.”
― Will Thomas, Hell Bay

“Sometimes it seems to me that history should be divided, not into B.C. and A.D. but into before the gun was invented and after. It was the greatest change in history. The sword, the dagger, one has a fighting chance, and skill came into the equation. Now anyone, man, woman, or even child, can walk into a room with a loaded gun, tug on a little twist of metal, and open a giant hole in another human being.”
― Will Thomas, Hell Bay

“There are no duties too humble for anyone when a crisis occurs.”
― Will Thomas, Hell Bay

“A Bible-quoting group of killers. I don't like it," Barker rumbled, his chin buried in his coat. "Murder and faith make nasty bedfellows.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“There’s no fear when you’re having fun.”
― Will Thomas

“I understand tea is more than a drink. Tea is a language. It soothed rough nerves and restored order to one’s world during difficult circumstances.”
― Will Thomas, Blood Is Blood

“It’s odd how people come into our lives and we learn to rely upon them to such an extent that when they are gone we mourn them more than our natural relations.”
― Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry

“That was my best hat and it was attached to my best head.”
― Will Thomas, Dance with Death

“A Welshman is always glad to add to his private store of tales.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“There is nothing he enjoys so much as a good walk, which he calls “the most social of exercises.”
― Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil

“The dog and I have a strange relationship: he considers me a servant too addlepated to intuit what he wants, while I consider him to be a burden, though one I’ve grown accustomed to. I let him share my bed and he lets me share his garden.”
― Will Thomas, The Black Hand

“A Bible-quoting group of killers. I don’t like it,”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“That’s the thing about multiple murderers, I think. They’re cowards, and they have a low threshold for their own pain, while loving to inflict it upon others.”
― Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil

“If I have one weakness, it would be a love for collecting books. If you like a book, it will become an old friend. If you don’t, it can warm you in the grate.”
― Will Thomas, Heart of the Nile

“Travel does not merely broaden the mind, it deepens it as well.”
― Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil

“Barker and I had each tasted poverty in our time and would do what we could to ease our neighbor’s burden. Otherwise, what else is a man good for?”
― Will Thomas, Season of Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

“Smile, but keep your powder dry.”
― Will Thomas, Dance with Death

“After five or six millennia to deal with the matter, we still had come no closer to understanding or accepting it, that we too are mere mortals and sometime our own number will come,”
― Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil

“I was in awe of death then, and now after many years and experiences, still am. I have never grown jaded about it. One minute we are sentient beings and the next, fodder for worms.”
― Will Thomas, The Limehouse Text

“Like most of us, he is as ignorant in some ways as he is wise in others.”
― Will Thomas, Heart of the Nile

“The British Museum has always had a reputation for possessing the rarest of ancient relics in its Egyptian collection.”
― Will Thomas, Heart of the Nile

“would he have any compunction about putting a bullet through my head? No. It would be all for the cause. The man believed himself a patriot. Patriot, I thought, a stirring term for the willingness to kill another human being.”
― Will Thomas, Death and Glory