Trout Quotes

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.