Mexico Set Quotes

“I never really trust drinking water anywhere but Scotland; and I’ve never been to Scotland. I”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“There’ll be no trouble, Angel,’ I said, giving him the sort of wide smile that I’d seen on carefree men with easy minds.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“Yes,’ I said. ‘There are trustworthy people in this world, but you have to take such unacceptable risks to find out who they are.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“Sex is like crime. Only one per cent motivation and ninety-nine per cent opportunity.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“The only thing a man has to know about women is that he’ll never know anything about them.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“Poor fellow, he needed handmade shoes because of his ‘awkward feet’ and Savile Row suits because he wasn’t lucky enough to have the figure for ready-made ones. Cheap wine played havoc with his stomach so he drank expensive ones, and because he couldn’t fit into economy-size airline seats he was forced to go everywhere first class.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“Life is worth nothing, life is worth nothing, It always starts with crying and with crying ends. And that’s why, in this world, life is worth nothing.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“the maguey plant smells like rancid nut-oil, but it’s the cheapest way to oblivion,”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set: A Bernard Samson Novel

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It’s the price we pay for progress.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set

“she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.”
― Len Deighton, Mexico Set