Top 39 Charteris Quotes
#2. Regretfully, I have decided that if the Saint Saga must remain permanently in print in its entirety, then it can only do so in its original form.
Leslie Charteris
#3. Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
Leslie Charteris
#4. Damnation, Kam." Kiaran jerks me back up when I start to fall forward. I'm not sure I can walk. "You're bleeding all over the place."
My voice comes out in a croak. "I'm not happy about it either.
Elizabeth May
#5. For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
Rick Derringer
#6. In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.
Leslie Charteris
#7. Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
Lucy Parsons
#8. There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.
Katie Aselton
#9. I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
Rick Pitino
#10. I'm called the Saint," he murmured. "But don't let us get melodramatic about it, son. The last man who got melodramatic with me was hanged at Exeter six months back. It don't seem to be healthy!
Leslie Charteris
#11. Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit.
Leslie Charteris
#12. In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
Leslie Charteris
#13. About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
Leslie Charteris
#14. He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.
Leslie Charteris
#15. It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Leslie Charteris
#16. Let's see what you've got - as the actress said to the bishop,
Leslie Charteris
#17. For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
Leslie Charteris
#18. His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.
Leslie Charteris
#19. The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
Leslie Charteris
#20. Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Leslie Charteris
#21. There are probably a million and one regrets I have, and if they are going to be between us here or in bed, then let's just stop it now, because I'm not going to do combat over my past when my future is finally starting to be something I want to invest in.
Jay Crownover
#22. I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
Leslie Charteris
#23. No one is destined for greatness. Everyone is just destined to express the greatness that already exists within.
Aunna Pourang
#24. Really?" asked Nina, tugging at her corset. Pollen from one of the irises had scattered over her bare shoulder. Matthias had the overwhelming urge to brush it away with his lips. It's probably poisonous, he told himself sternly. Maybe he should take a walk.
Leigh Bardugo
#26. If you'd only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I was just perfecting a little song about a wild woman of Gotham, who made love to young men and then shot 'em - till
Leslie Charteris
#27. Simon Templar was a man who couldn't help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.
Leslie Charteris
#28. To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.
John Carpenter
#29. The Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man.
Leslie Charteris
#30. CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.
Sean Bean
#33. If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
Leslie Charteris
#34. The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
Leslie Charteris
#35. It was as if a rocket had exploded inside him, flooding all the dark places in his mind with light when he had caught up in that dynamic moment with the lead his instinct for adventure had given him.
Leslie Charteris
#37. It doesn't take a lot of people to create something amazing. It can take one or four people who are really driven and like minded to create something that has amazing meaning and value to millions of people in the world.
Ji Lee
#38. Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
Luke Evans
#39. Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
Charlotte Bunch
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