“Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“If you ever think you might want a career in politics, Inspector, think again. It's merely a continuous and mostly vain attempt… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“If you even *need* a government, added Stig, "you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“European nation with highest politician/lover ratio: Few European states can hope to compete with France and Italy in this department, and the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Governments might come and go, wars will reshape the Ununited Kingdoms many times. But companies will stay, and flourish. Show me any… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image