Top 200 Anthony Horowitz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.”

— Anthony Horowitz

52. “Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”

— Anthony Horowitz

53. “You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed.”

— Anthony Horowitz

54. “We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”

— Anthony Horowitz

55. “You must know that feeling when it’s raining outside and the heating’s on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.”

— Anthony Horowitz

56. “You don’t want to be hanging around this village. You don’t want to be anywhere near here. Do you understand me? I shouldn’t be talking to you like this. But if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get away. You’ll go as far away as you can and you won’t come back.”

— Anthony Horowitz

57. “There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.”

— Anthony Horowitz

58. “It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. – Dr. Grief.”

— Anthony Horowitz

59. “You couldn’t trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.”

— Anthony Horowitz

60. “But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That’s why they become politicians.”

— Anthony Horowitz

61. “When your business is death, the only death you should never consider is your own.”

— Anthony Horowitz

62. “You’re nothing if you’re not special.”

— Anthony Horowitz

63. “Pack your mother and kiss your clothes goodbye. No!” He banged his head against the table. “Kiss your mother and pack your clothes. Your train leaves at one.”

— Anthony Horowitz

64. “There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.”

— Anthony Horowitz

65. “My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.”

— Anthony Horowitz

66. “We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It’s all down to choice.”

— Anthony Horowitz

67. “Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.”

— Anthony Horowitz

68. “You’re trying to tell me that everything you’ve done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I’m not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don’t have to behave like you.”

— Anthony Horowitz

69. “But the thing is, you see -and to be honest, I don’t like to mention this- I’m a bit short. There just aren’t enough people getting murdered.”

— Anthony Horowitz

70. “Fraser had the immediate thought that his was a man whom it would be easy to dislike. He did not just arouse antipathy; he almost seemed to cultivate it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

71. “I’ve met police dogs with more intelligence than those two. You could tell them everything we’ve done, down to the last word, and they’d still end up running around in a circle, sniffing each other’s arses.”

— Anthony Horowitz

72. “We’re meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.”

— Anthony Horowitz

73. “Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.”

— Anthony Horowitz

74. “If you stand too close to the sun you can’t complain when all you become as a silhouette.”

— Anthony Horowitz

75. “The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.”

— Anthony Horowitz

76. “She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn’t quite possible.”

— Anthony Horowitz

77. “He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.”

— Anthony Horowitz

78. “If this is what you do to the winner, I’d hate to see how you treat the runner up.”

— Anthony Horowitz

79. “That’s the thing about funerals. They’re completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it’s not true.”

— Anthony Horowitz

80. “It shouldn’t be too hard to spot,” Daniels said. “It’s bloody huge. And if it goes bang, you’ll hear it ten miles away.”

— Anthony Horowitz

81. “For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.”

— Anthony Horowitz

82. “As far as I’m concerned, you can’t beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn’t seen it from the start.”

— Anthony Horowitz

83. “Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day.”

— Anthony Horowitz

84. “The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.”

— Anthony Horowitz

85. “Your temperature’s normal, though I’d say it’s the only thing about you that is.”

— Anthony Horowitz

86. “Oh-do be careful with that! That’s my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.”

— Anthony Horowitz

87. “It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.”

— Anthony Horowitz

88. “To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

89. “I hurried forward and entered the church. The interior was huge, cluttered, draughty, a collage of different centuries. It was probably unhappy to have arrived at this one: the twelfth century had provided the arches, the sixteenth the lovely wooden ceiling, the eighteenth the altar – and what had the twenty-first bestowed upon St Michael? Atheism and indifference.”

— Anthony Horowitz

90. “No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.”

— Anthony Horowitz

91. “Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.”

— Anthony Horowitz

92. “My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.”

— Anthony Horowitz

93. “There’s a dream world that we visit sometimes and that’s how we found out who we are.”

— Anthony Horowitz

94. “He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. “What did you do to him?” he asked. “He got the wrong number,” Alex said.”

— Anthony Horowitz

95. “Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you’d achieved would one day fit inside.”

— Anthony Horowitz

96. “The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid.”

— Anthony Horowitz

97. “Fangio had once said: ‘You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It’s a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

98. “I love writing different things.”

— Anthony Horowitz

99. “He died fighting for what he believed in.”

— Anthony Horowitz

100. “From the moment I was able to make my own decisions, I became what has come to be called a vegetarian – a word that originated here in England, you might like to know.”

— Anthony Horowitz