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Top 30 John Lanchester Quotes (2024 Update)

John Lanchester Quote: “We wouldn’t care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

1. “We wouldn’t care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

2. “You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they’re told. It’s not like it is in films. Don’t be brave, just do what you’re told.”

3. “They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they’re told. It’s not like it is in films. Don’t be brave, just do what you’re told.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “I’d been brought up not to think about the Others in terms of where they came from or who they were, to ignore all that – they were just Others. But maybe, now that I was one of them, they weren’t Others anymore? If I was an Other and they were Others perhaps none of us were Others but instead we were a new Us. It was confusing.”

4. “I’d been brought up not to think about the Others in terms of where they came from or who they were, to ignore all that – they were just Others. But maybe, now that I was one of them, they weren’t Others anymore? If I was an Other and they were Others perhaps none of us were Others but instead we were a new Us. It was confusing.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn’t, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”

5. “Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn’t, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “It’s as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.”

6. “It’s as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.”

7. “Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The organization is “committed to improving the state of the world.” In practice it is mainly a rich people’s club, committed to preserving the existing world order.”

8. “The organization is “committed to improving the state of the world.” In practice it is mainly a rich people’s club, committed to preserving the existing world order.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.”

9. “The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody.”

10. “It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger’s considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.”

11. “On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger’s considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.”

12. “In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “From his dealings with his mother, Smitty had learned the following truth: the person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

13. “From his dealings with his mother, Smitty had learned the following truth: the person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “In Shahid’s view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn’t be solved by being ignored.”

14. “In Shahid’s view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn’t be solved by being ignored.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.”

15. “Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.”

16. “The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “As so often with the ideologically committed free marketer, there is no sense that he’s actually thinking about what he’s saying; he’s merely adumbrating arguments towards a conclusion he reached in advance.”

17. “As so often with the ideologically committed free marketer, there is no sense that he’s actually thinking about what he’s saying; he’s merely adumbrating arguments towards a conclusion he reached in advance.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “How does the industry seek to master the risks? Through mathematics. The common-sense version of what sophisticated investors do is diversification, a technique so old it’s mentioned in the Talmud, where the strategy advocated is to have a third of your assets in trade, a third in cash and a third in land.”

18. “How does the industry seek to master the risks? Through mathematics. The common-sense version of what sophisticated investors do is diversification, a technique so old it’s mentioned in the Talmud, where the strategy advocated is to have a third of your assets in trade, a third in cash and a third in land.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland’s status as a separate nation.”

19. “In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland’s status as a separate nation.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

20. “The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn’t.”

21. “Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn’t.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Customers deposit money in a bank for interest; the bank lends that money to other people at a higher rate of interest. This isn’t glamorous or interesting, but then banking is not supposed to resemble base jumping or hip-hop.”

22. “Customers deposit money in a bank for interest; the bank lends that money to other people at a higher rate of interest. This isn’t glamorous or interesting, but then banking is not supposed to resemble base jumping or hip-hop.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”

23. “But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.”

24. “People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.”

25. “Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.”

26. “The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “For he that hath, to him shall be given.”

27. “For he that hath, to him shall be given.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside.”

28. “Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “The only thing worse than when nothing happens is when something does.”

29. “The only thing worse than when nothing happens is when something does.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “I’ve been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I’ve found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.”

30. “I’ve been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I’ve found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.”

— John Lanchester

John Lanchester Quote: “To give your life is one thing; to do it for a gesture is another; but to do it for a gesture you know is meaningless is a desolate trick of fate.”

31. “To give your life is one thing; to do it for a gesture is another; but to do it for a gesture you know is meaningless is a desolate trick of fate.”

— John Lanchester

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