Top 200 Anthony Horowitz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It’s all happening the way it was meant to be.”

— Anthony Horowitz

2. “You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”

— Anthony Horowitz

3. “You’re never too young to die.”

— Anthony Horowitz

4. “Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

— Anthony Horowitz

5. “The worst time to feel alone is when you’re in a crowd.”

— Anthony Horowitz

6. “Evil will never win entirely. It can’t. It’s not in its nature.”

— Anthony Horowitz

7. “Inside every fat man, there’s a thin man trying to get out.”

— Anthony Horowitz

8. “A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn’t become one himself.”

— Anthony Horowitz

9. “When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”

— Anthony Horowitz

10. “Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.”

— Anthony Horowitz

11. “I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.”

— Anthony Horowitz

12. “I’m not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.”

— Anthony Horowitz

13. “You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured... courage, determination... that count.”

— Anthony Horowitz

14. “When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”

— Anthony Horowitz

15. “I don’t know what I’d do without you. There’s no one else to look after me. And it’s not just that. I sometimes think you’re the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I’m with you.”

— Anthony Horowitz

16. “It’s funny how things work out sometimes.”

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17. “Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you’re going and when you’re going to be there.”

— Anthony Horowitz

18. “Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.”

— Anthony Horowitz

19. “You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It’s prejudice. Racial prejudice!”

— Anthony Horowitz

20. “These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.”

— Anthony Horowitz

21. “Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.”

— Anthony Horowitz

22. “I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.”

— Anthony Horowitz

23. “My perfect reader doesn’t just read – he or she devours books.”

— Anthony Horowitz

24. “The Portuguese man-of-war,” Sayle continued. He had a heavy accent brought with him from the Cairo marketplace. “It’s beautiful, don’t you think?” “I wouldn’t keep one as a pet,” Alex said. “I.”

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25. “Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist.”

— Anthony Horowitz

26. “All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?”

— Anthony Horowitz

27. “We’re all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.”

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28. “We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.”

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29. “Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

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30. “TOYS AREN’T US.”

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31. “It’s none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you’re about it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

32. “Well,’ I tried, ‘I suppose it’s the thought that counts.’ ‘Yes. He thought we wouldn’t notice he’s a complete cheapskate.”

— Anthony Horowitz

33. “In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed?”

— Anthony Horowitz

34. “Some things can’t be changed. They’ll always happen the way they were supposed to.”

— Anthony Horowitz

35. “Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still a child.”

— Anthony Horowitz

36. “What is this place? Hogwarts? – Alex Rider.”

— Anthony Horowitz

37. “He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.”

— Anthony Horowitz

38. “In fact, Fraser had often heard the detective remark that there was no such thing as a coincidence. There was a chapter in The Landscape of Criminal Investigation where he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.”

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39. “Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle’s War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander – British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.”

— Anthony Horowitz

40. “Sometimes it’s the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”

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41. “When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open, but for a moment he stayed completely still in his bed, lying on his back with his head resting on the pillow.”

— Anthony Horowitz

42. “For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?”

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43. “Nice day for a funeral.”

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44. “Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don’t swallow the gum!”

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45. “Swear words in books have always struck me as lazy and over-familiar. But the ‘c’ word is more than that. It’s used by sour, frustrated men, nearly always about women. It’s a word full of misogyny – crudely offensive.”

— Anthony Horowitz

46. “No offense, but I’d rather kiss the horse.”

— Anthony Horowitz

47. “You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.”

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48. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

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49. “There are few things in the world that we don’t know. Science has explained everything away.”

— Anthony Horowitz

50. “Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.”

— Anthony Horowitz