Dick Francis Quotes

• Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

  Dick Francis

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  Dick Francis (2005). “Reflex”, p.18, Penguin

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

  Dick Francis

  Being Weird, Weirdness, Achieve

  Dick Francis (2004). “To the Hilt”, p.3, Penguin

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• I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

  Dick Francis

  Views, Evil, Interesting

  Dick Francis (2010). “Comeback”, p.16, Penguin

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• Good manners are a sign of strength.

  Dick Francis

  Good Man, Manners, Good Manners

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

  Dick Francis

  Character, Journey, Rough Times

  Dick Francis (1986). “A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

  Dick Francis

  Law, Way, Crime

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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

  Dick Francis

  Heart, Jockeys, Fence

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• Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

  Dick Francis

  Looks, Upside Down, Granted

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• Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

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  Powerful, Science, Thinking

  Dick Francis (2004). “Twice Shy”, p.18, Penguin

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• But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you said is proved spot on right by time.

  Dick Francis

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Dick Francis (2004). “10 lb Penalty”, p.21, Penguin

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• Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

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  Risk, Mind, Window

  Dick Francis (1969). “Three to show: a trilogy”, Harpercollins

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• I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

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  Self, Next, Ruins

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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• Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

  Dick Francis

  Hurt, Feelings, Comfort

  Dick Francis (2010). “The Danger”, p.72, Penguin

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

  Dick Francis

  Dream, Made, Discarded

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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• Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

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  Rotten, Politics, Emotion

  Dick Francis (2001). “In the Frame”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

  Dick Francis

  Football, Fate, People

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.15, Penguin

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

  Dick Francis

  Ideas, Swim, Mind

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• Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

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  Cancer, People, Cancer Survivor

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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• People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

  Dick Francis

  People, Don't Trust Anyone, Can't Trust Anyone

  Dick Francis (2004). “10 lb Penalty”, p.21, Penguin

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• THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

  Dick Francis

  Children, People, Layers

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• Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

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  Writing, Self, Tasks

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• I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me

  Dick Francis

  Mother, Running, Somewhere Else

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• The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

  Dick Francis

  Men, Tissue Paper, Tissues

  Dick Francis (2010). “Banker”, p.16, Penguin

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• How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

  Dick Francis

  Fire, People, Ashes

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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