Dick Francis Quotes

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that...

one should never assume anything

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they...

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, eve...

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me perso...

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and ...