Dick Francis

“one should never assume anything”

— Dick Francis

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

— Dick Francis

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

— Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

— Dick Francis

“Thought before action, if you have time”

— Dick Francis

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

— Dick Francis

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to…

— Dick Francis

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

— Dick Francis

“Life is like the weather,despite a sunny forecast you can get wet.”

— Dick Francis

“May I deal with honour May I act with courage May I achieve humility”

— Dick Francis

“I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.”

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

— Dick Francis

“The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight." ~Greville”

— Dick Francis

“If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning),…

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

“Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a…

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

“Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact,…

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its…

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

“I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn’t enough for the job. I felt the suicidal…

— Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such…

— Dick Francis

“To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally…

— Dick Francis

“In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here…

— Dick Francis

“The house was dark. Upstairs, behind the black open window with the pale curtain flapping in the spartan air, slept Arthur Morrison,…

— Dick Francis

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is…

— Dick Francis

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

— Dick Francis

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

— Dick Francis

“Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.”

— Dick Francis

“Mrs Palis­sey and I tend­ed to have the same con­ver­sa­tions over and over and slight­ly too of­ten. ”

— Dick Francis

“She said several times that Malcolm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil…

— Dick Francis

“Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always…

— Dick Francis

I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had…

— Dick Francis

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it…

— Dick Francis

“I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so…

— Dick Francis

“Chick forced himself to turn his head away, to walk in view of that window, to take the ten exposed steps down…

— Dick Francis