Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Your biggest threat is the person who knows the most about you.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn)

When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

Our best line of defense, trying to keep this nation safe and secure, is an effective intelligence-gathering capability, with robust congressional oversight.

National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.

If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.

It's best to know what the enemy are saying.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.

Attack the enemy's strategy.

It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.