Snow White and the Seven Samurai Quotes

“a problem’s nothing but an opportunity wearing a funny hat, and inside every disaster there’s a triumph struggling to get out.”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai

“You ever been strafed from the air by Santa’s little helpers? Not recommended. It’s not so much the cluster-bombs that get to you, it’s the fact that they’re all tastefully wrapped in coloured paper and tied up with silver ribbon.”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai

“When finally you do die, be sure to bequeath your collection of bloody silly mistakes to the nation. It’d be a shame if they all got split up and sold off separately.”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai

“When it comes to the irreconcilable conflict between man and beast, our role is strictly confined to robbing the dead. Okay?”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai

“You again,’ snarled the elf. ‘Don’t you people ever give up?’ The frog dilated its cheeks. ‘No,’ it croaked. ‘It’s a little thing called duty. Not something I’d expect your kind to know anything about.’ ‘That’s where you’re wrong then,’ jeered the elf. ‘I know lots about duty. It’s seventeen per cent on gin, whisky, rum and tequila, twenty-eight per cent on cigars ...”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai

“Not all little houses in big woods are quaint or charming, or even safe. Some of them are piled to the rafters with stolen car radios, others house illegal stills used for making moon-shine (so called, they say, because one carelessly dropped match could lead to a fireball that’d be visible from the Moon).”
― Tom Holt, Snow White And The Seven Samurai