Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
born 1964 England
Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.
- England
- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Screenwriters
154 quotes
Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.
There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.
A promise is a promise, or as Nightingale put it, “either your word is good or it’s worthless.”
Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark.
Still magic, like policing, has always been much more about the practice than the theory.
The prisons are full of people with poor impulse control and a lack of foresight.
It’s no fun looking down on people if you can’t let them know you’re above them.
“Fortunately,” said Nightingale, “seeing isn’t always believing.”
The more power something has, the less the actual facts matter.
Nothing beats a long wait at a bus stop as a reality check.
Not everything that’s unexplained is caused by magic.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Aaronovitch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.