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

“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

“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

“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

“I don’t function well, as a rule, until coffee is singing freely in my veins,”
― Will Thomas, The Black Hand

“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

“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

“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

“I don’t care for security work. It is much easier to track a killer that has killed already than to protect someone from any number of attacks.”
― Will Thomas, Hell Bay

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

“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

“one could make out the features of the so-called man in the moon. I know that scientists claim they are merely mountain ranges on that far-off sphere, but I liked to think of the benevolent or at least benign fellow who watches over us every night.”
― Will Thomas, Hell Bay

“Unctuous, is what he was. Or bumptious. Possibly both at once.”
― Will Thomas, Anatomy of Evil

“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

“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

“I’ll add him to your list.” “Thank you,” I said. “I don’t believe it’s a list of everyone you dislike,” my wife pronounced. “More likely it’s a list of everyone you know.”
― 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

“A half hour later the aforementioned blight upon humanity invaded our quarters in his usual manner—”
― Will Thomas, The Black Hand

“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