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Top 70 Mick Herron Quotes (2025 Update)
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Mick Herron Quote: “Look, Roddy.” This was said kindly. “All that crap I lay on you? The name-calling? The threats?” “It’s okay,” Ho said. “I know you don’t mean it.” “I mean every bloody word, my son. But it will all seem trivial compared to what’ll happen if you don’t start making sense sharpish. Capisce?”

51. “Look, Roddy.” This was said kindly. “All that crap I lay on you? The name-calling? The threats?” “It’s okay,” Ho said. “I know you don’t mean it.” “I mean every bloody word, my son. But it will all seem trivial compared to what’ll happen if you don’t start making sense sharpish. Capisce?”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “When he’d joined the Service he’d been in Psych Eval, which had involved evaluating operational strategies for psychological impact – on targets as well as agents – but had also meant carrying out individual assessments; who was stressed, who’d benefit from a change of routine, and who was a psychopath. Every organisation had a few, usually at management level, and it was handy to know who they were in case there was an emergency, or an office party.”

52. “When he’d joined the Service he’d been in Psych Eval, which had involved evaluating operational strategies for psychological impact – on targets as well as agents – but had also meant carrying out individual assessments; who was stressed, who’d benefit from a change of routine, and who was a psychopath. Every organisation had a few, usually at management level, and it was handy to know who they were in case there was an emergency, or an office party.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Hope you’ve had your jabs,′ said Lamb. ‘You’re going to Gloucestershire.”

53. “Hope you’ve had your jabs,′ said Lamb. ‘You’re going to Gloucestershire.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “If no sober day was wasted, then nobody could take one from her. Even if today brought a slip, the total would stay the same. All that would happen wag that she would not be adding to it. It was like money in the bank. If you missed a deposit, that didn’t mean the sum grew smaller.”

54. “If no sober day was wasted, then nobody could take one from her. Even if today brought a slip, the total would stay the same. All that would happen wag that she would not be adding to it. It was like money in the bank. If you missed a deposit, that didn’t mean the sum grew smaller.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Those young-man dreams of living each day as if it were your last, they wore off; showed up, in the cold light of after-fifty, for the magpie treasures they were.”

55. “Those young-man dreams of living each day as if it were your last, they wore off; showed up, in the cold light of after-fifty, for the magpie treasures they were.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “This isn’t an Agatha Christie.” “I don’t care if it’s a Dan Brown.”

56. “This isn’t an Agatha Christie.” “I don’t care if it’s a Dan Brown.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Her life was not what she might have wanted it to be, but that was no reason for destroying what it was.”

57. “Her life was not what she might have wanted it to be, but that was no reason for destroying what it was.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “There were so many things age could do to you; so few you could do in return.”

58. “There were so many things age could do to you; so few you could do in return.”

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Mick Herron Quote: “Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second.”

59. “Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “The Trophy Wife wore a red dress four measured inches above the knee, and lipstick in a shade to match; this plus the kind of face that usually came with a slogan slapped above it, and a figure men would pay money to see with staples through the middle.”

60. “The Trophy Wife wore a red dress four measured inches above the knee, and lipstick in a shade to match; this plus the kind of face that usually came with a slogan slapped above it, and a figure men would pay money to see with staples through the middle.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “For a tiny moment it felt good to have something to blame for all this, even if what he was blaming was the internet, which could never be made to care.”

61. “For a tiny moment it felt good to have something to blame for all this, even if what he was blaming was the internet, which could never be made to care.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Lamb seemed to consider several responses before settling for a fart.”

62. “Lamb seemed to consider several responses before settling for a fart.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “We’re Slough House’, he said. Then added, ‘Hasta la vista baby,’ before following the others down the stairs.”

63. “We’re Slough House’, he said. Then added, ‘Hasta la vista baby,’ before following the others down the stairs.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Like smokers unable to smell their habit on their clothes, drinkers always thought themselves unaffected.”

64. “Like smokers unable to smell their habit on their clothes, drinkers always thought themselves unaffected.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “If words meant different things to different people, how could they be trusted?”

65. “If words meant different things to different people, how could they be trusted?”

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Mick Herron Quote: “There was always the temptation to imagine tourists had no life other than the one you saw them leading; that they were constantly wowing at landmarks and wearing inappropriate shirts.”

66. “There was always the temptation to imagine tourists had no life other than the one you saw them leading; that they were constantly wowing at landmarks and wearing inappropriate shirts.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “You either cleaned up other people’s messes or you didn’t – and that was the class system for you, right there.”

67. “You either cleaned up other people’s messes or you didn’t – and that was the class system for you, right there.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “He looked like a posterboy for something expensive but ultimately soulless, like alcohol-free lager, or a New Labour policy initiative.”

68. “He looked like a posterboy for something expensive but ultimately soulless, like alcohol-free lager, or a New Labour policy initiative.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “That was what life was: you worked, sometimes you couldn’t sleep, and your future was already being shaped. Until something crashed into it and knocked everything out of true.”

69. “That was what life was: you worked, sometimes you couldn’t sleep, and your future was already being shaped. Until something crashed into it and knocked everything out of true.”

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Mick Herron Quote: “So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, some sympathy.”

70. “So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, some sympathy.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful.”

71. “But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Such observations came naturally to Judd, who could no more look at a woman without assessing her bedability than he could see a microphone without minting a soundbite. She smiled – she had recognised him, of course – then replaced the bottle in its bucket and moved away. He’d leave a decent tip, and get her number. He was supposed to be behaving himself, for reasons of marital harmony, but a waitress hardly counted, for God’s sake.”

72. “Such observations came naturally to Judd, who could no more look at a woman without assessing her bedability than he could see a microphone without minting a soundbite. She smiled – she had recognised him, of course – then replaced the bottle in its bucket and moved away. He’d leave a decent tip, and get her number. He was supposed to be behaving himself, for reasons of marital harmony, but a waitress hardly counted, for God’s sake.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Because we both know the tide’s turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by mad liberals in Brussels, and the sooner we take control over our own future, our own borders –.”

73. “Because we both know the tide’s turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by mad liberals in Brussels, and the sooner we take control over our own future, our own borders –.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Every footfall was helping return the city’s streets to their unadorned state, while yesterday’s snowflakes learned the lesson London offers to all who settle there: that while all are unique, most appear identical, both before and after being trodden upon.”

74. “Every footfall was helping return the city’s streets to their unadorned state, while yesterday’s snowflakes learned the lesson London offers to all who settle there: that while all are unique, most appear identical, both before and after being trodden upon.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “If everyone succeeded, nobody did.”

75. “If everyone succeeded, nobody did.”

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Mick Herron Quote: “Having clean hands was an unusual criterion for the role, but his predecessor’s shenanigans had ensured that, on this occasion at least, it was politic.”

76. “Having clean hands was an unusual criterion for the role, but his predecessor’s shenanigans had ensured that, on this occasion at least, it was politic.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “Besides, if his party stood for anything, it was for defending the right of the strong to flourish, which meant preventing the weak from taking up unnecessary space.”

77. “Besides, if his party stood for anything, it was for defending the right of the strong to flourish, which meant preventing the weak from taking up unnecessary space.”

— Mick Herron

Mick Herron Quote: “A waitress had joined the gathering throng; was cruising with a bottle of fizz, topping glasses, all bright-eyed and shiny. Sarah guessed someone had once told her her eyes were her best feature, because she was holding them open wider than natural. God, the hoops you had to jump through. It was a wonder foot binding had slipped off the agenda. She remembered Ginger Rogers’ remark: that she’d made the same moves Fred did, only backwards, wearing heels.”

78. “A waitress had joined the gathering throng; was cruising with a bottle of fizz, topping glasses, all bright-eyed and shiny. Sarah guessed someone had once told her her eyes were her best feature, because she was holding them open wider than natural. God, the hoops you had to jump through. It was a wonder foot binding had slipped off the agenda. She remembered Ginger Rogers’ remark: that she’d made the same moves Fred did, only backwards, wearing heels.”

— Mick Herron

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