Michael Gilbert Quotes

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

[A murder investigation] is a system which involves an enormous amount of work for a large number of people, and has only got one thing in its favor. It is nearly always successful in the end.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

I believe that the law is the most important thing in the world today. I don't mean the practice of lawyers. I mean the law itself. Normally I sleep well. If there's one thing that can keep me awake at night it's a vision, which I sometimes have, of this country being ruled by the wishes of its rulers and not by the rule of law.'

'Could it happen here?'

'Of course it could. It's too bloody easy for a Government to panic and set the law on one side because it happens to be inconvenient. Temporarily, of course. They always mean to bring it back again -- some time.' --Flash Point, 1974

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.