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Top 25 Christopher Fowler Quotes (2025 Update)

Christopher Fowler Quote: “Life is a very beautiful dream. I’m so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.”

1. “Life is a very beautiful dream. I’m so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “I don’t think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You’re only getting away with it because he doesn’t know what it means.’ ‘That’s the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.”

2. “I don’t think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You’re only getting away with it because he doesn’t know what it means.’ ‘That’s the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “There are always regrets, of course. But you have to try and make a difference without hurting anyone along the way, so that you can reach a final state of grace without shame.”

3. “There are always regrets, of course. But you have to try and make a difference without hurting anyone along the way, so that you can reach a final state of grace without shame.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.”

4. “Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn’t be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It’s a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.”

5. “Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn’t be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It’s a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”

6. “It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.”

7. “If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area’s past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.”

8. “Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area’s past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.”

9. “Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim’s provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere.”

10. “If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim’s provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.”

11. “I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.”

12. “We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”

13. “I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”

14. “Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.”

15. “My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “Arthur, you used to sound your age. Now you’re sounding several centuries old.’ ‘What’s wrong with that? One of the great pleasures that used to come with senior citizenship was the right to be perfectly vile to everyone. You could say whatever you liked, and people excused you out of respect for your advanced years. But now that everyone is in touch with their emotions and says exactly what they feel, even that pleasure has been taken away. Is there nothing the young haven’t usurped?”

16. “Arthur, you used to sound your age. Now you’re sounding several centuries old.’ ‘What’s wrong with that? One of the great pleasures that used to come with senior citizenship was the right to be perfectly vile to everyone. You could say whatever you liked, and people excused you out of respect for your advanced years. But now that everyone is in touch with their emotions and says exactly what they feel, even that pleasure has been taken away. Is there nothing the young haven’t usurped?”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “The drawings are terribly good.”

17. “The drawings are terribly good.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “I’m not working class anymore,′ he said. ‘I’m lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn’t it?”

18. “I’m not working class anymore,′ he said. ‘I’m lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn’t it?”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “Do you enjoy reading?’ ‘I enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey.’ Bryant quailed at the thought. ‘That’s not really reading, is it? More like staring at an assortment of words.’ ‘It is very popular.’ ‘So is taking photographs of your dinner for Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it adds to the total sum of human knowledge.”

19. “Do you enjoy reading?’ ‘I enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey.’ Bryant quailed at the thought. ‘That’s not really reading, is it? More like staring at an assortment of words.’ ‘It is very popular.’ ‘So is taking photographs of your dinner for Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it adds to the total sum of human knowledge.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “Now, the tourist hot spots of the city were the very parts that made it like everywhere else. Was it possible to imagine those buildings without inhaling the animal-fat stink of McDonald’s or KFC? He never thought London would cease to appeal to him, but the little faded glory it still possessed was being scuffed away by the dead hand of globalization. On his down days he saw London as a crumbling ancient house, slowly collapsing under the weight of its own past.”

20. “Now, the tourist hot spots of the city were the very parts that made it like everywhere else. Was it possible to imagine those buildings without inhaling the animal-fat stink of McDonald’s or KFC? He never thought London would cease to appeal to him, but the little faded glory it still possessed was being scuffed away by the dead hand of globalization. On his down days he saw London as a crumbling ancient house, slowly collapsing under the weight of its own past.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury.”

21. “The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “No more sending your clothes over to forensics to be dry-cleaned, no more running up kebab tabs on stakeouts and no more pawning items from the Evidence Room until payday.”

22. “No more sending your clothes over to forensics to be dry-cleaned, no more running up kebab tabs on stakeouts and no more pawning items from the Evidence Room until payday.”

— Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler Quote: “May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.”

23. “May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.”

24. “It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “These hippie writers are selfish and irresponsible. I’ll tell you what made our nation the bastion of patrician morality it is today: the ability to be profoundly miserable. It’s one of our greatest strengths, to be ranked beside shutting the boozers at ten-thirty and regarding the waterproof mackintosh as an acceptable item of clothing.”

25. “These hippie writers are selfish and irresponsible. I’ll tell you what made our nation the bastion of patrician morality it is today: the ability to be profoundly miserable. It’s one of our greatest strengths, to be ranked beside shutting the boozers at ten-thirty and regarding the waterproof mackintosh as an acceptable item of clothing.”

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Christopher Fowler Quote: “I’ll have you know I keep detailed notes. Mistakes sometimes occur in translation.’ ‘Why do your notes need translating?’ ‘I write them in Aramaic. It’s a three-thousand-year-old language so I have to make up a lot of words.”

26. “I’ll have you know I keep detailed notes. Mistakes sometimes occur in translation.’ ‘Why do your notes need translating?’ ‘I write them in Aramaic. It’s a three-thousand-year-old language so I have to make up a lot of words.”

— Christopher Fowler

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