Gavin Lyall Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
May 9, 1932 – January, 18, 2003.

Gavin Tudor Lyall was an English author of espionage thrillers. Lyall was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, as the son of a local accountant, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. After completing his two years of National Service, 1951 to 1953, as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force flying Gloster Meteors, he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1956 with honours in English.

Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?

Gavin Lyall
- Life
- Secret
- Risks
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

Gavin Lyall

One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.

Gavin Lyall
The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

Gavin Lyall
- Women
- Vote
- Started
You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

Gavin Lyall
- Feeling
- Fly
- Happen