Top 200 Anthony Horowitz Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Holmes is depressed. Poirot is vain. Miss Marple is brusque and eccentric. They don’t have to be attractive. Look at Nero Wolfe who was so fat that he couldn’t even leave his New York home and had to have a custom-made chair to support his weight!”

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102. “One car behind him. Two.”

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103. “Holmes had returned entirely to his old self – secretive, over-confident and thoroughly annoying.”

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104. “In the old days, spies had done they’d done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he’d never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren’t employed. They were used.”

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105. “One can think of the truth as eine vertiefung – a sort of deep valley which may not be visible from a distance but which will come upon you quite suddenly. There are many ways to arrive there.”

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106. “Death is the same for the one who dies.”

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107. “But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we enjoy it.”

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108. “How many spelling misteaks are their in this sentence?”

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109. “I don’t think my father was a bad man, all in all.”

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110. “You’d have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I’d have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.”

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111. “You see what I mean?” Jerry said. Tom had his back to the buildings. He was looking at the sea. “Anyone fancy a swim?” he asked. “Yeah.” Jerry nodded slowly. “You bring any trunks?” “No.” “It doesn’t matter. We can swim in our underpants.” “I’m not wearing underpants.” Jerry glanced at his brother. “Charming!”

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112. “You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.”

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113. “I was with him throughout the whole process: writing the books, finishing them and then the horrible disappointment when nobody was interested. You have no idea what it’s like, Susan, being rejected, those letters that turn up in the post with six or seven lines dismissing the work of a whole year.”

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114. “I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin.”

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115. “Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway!”

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116. “How could you not wish to see what tomorrow brings? How could you not want to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, to eat ice cream in the Piazza Navona, to watch the children throwing coins into the fountain?”

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117. “Routine was going to kill Michael J. Roscoe and this was the day death had chosen to come calling. Of.”

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118. “You look at me as if I were a conjuror,′ Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”

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119. “When you are in his sort of business – now my business – you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.”

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120. “There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we’re so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that’s how it is. It’s why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen word can bring all sorts of trouble down on.”

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121. “He used language as a place for us to hide.”

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122. “Alex watched her leave. So it was true what Yassen had said. Her last question had proved it. He knew who he was. The son of a contract killer.”

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123. “It was the reference to Down’s syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an ‘awful sickness’. It wasn’t. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son’s marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from.”

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124. “Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.”

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125. “I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.”

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126. “I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope.”

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127. “He hadn’t done anything. He hadn’t needed to. Just being there was enough.”

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128. “I’m not going to get any.”

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129. “But that’s how it is when you’re a kid, isn’t it? You have all these dreams and, unless you’re lucky, they never amount to anything.”

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130. “The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.”

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131. “If you think it’s hard getting in, you should try getting out.”

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132. “There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.”

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133. “There are a lot of people who don’t like a lot of people but they don’t go around the place murdering them.”

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134. “I prefer to use my name from your world.′ he said. ‘I’m just Matt’.”

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135. “Everything had been beaten down and baked by the sun.”

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136. “Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I’ve never met a mean librarian.”

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137. “You must do what you want.”

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138. “The world was healing itself.”

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139. “There are many things in life that cannot be explained.”

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140. “Sun worshippers? No. These people were here because they worshipped themselves.”

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141. “From my experience, law firms are always quiet places. Maybe it’s because they make words so expensive that they tend to use them sparingly among themselves.”

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142. “You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.”

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143. “If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.”

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144. “Then why don’t you go and – – yourself.”

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145. “Agnes Carmichael, who turns out to be the killer, hasn’t spoken a word – hardly surprising, as she’s a deaf mute.”

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146. “And you think he’ll tell?” Matt asked. “We will make him tell us.” Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.”

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147. “In just about every other book I can think of, we’re chasing on the heels of our heroes – the spies, the soldiers, the romantics, the adventurers. But we stand shoulder to shoulder with the detective.”

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148. “Abbiatico and Salvinelli,” he said. “It cost me thirty grand – or my mother, anyway.”

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149. “As Leo had said to me, none of us knew what our crime was, but reading the book was certainly a punishment. The.”

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150. “Alex listened as the two men argued, neither really listening to what the other had to say. So this was how the government worked!”

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