# Quote — Tom Holt, Flying Dutch

> In a long life, reflected the Flying Dutchman, I have come across many bloody silly ideas, but two of them are in a class of their own for pure untainted idiocy. One was the Court of King Ludwig of Bavaria, and the other is the privatised British telephone service.
>
> A long way away, definitely in another continent and quite probably in another dimension, a little voice ask him to repeat the name.

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Book: [Flying Dutch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch.md)
- Page: 65
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Holt#Flying_Dutch_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch/in-a-long

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> It may not be true, but it provides a much-needed focal point for baffled indignation.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch/it-may-not.md)

> When he left Quincy's he returned to the studios and went to see the man who was going to tell him everything he needed to know about sports broadcasting in twenty-five minutes.
>
> “The main thing,” said the expert, is to turn up on the right day at the right place and keep the sound recordists out of the bar. Leave everything else to the cameramen, and you'll do all right. That's it.”

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch/when-he-left.md)

> Jane was a child of the media age, and there lurked in the back of her mind the instinctive belief that if a thing wasn't on the news, it couldn't really have happened after all.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch/jane-was-a-child.md)