"My Favourite Quotes"
"I've got a plan so cunning you can put a tail on it and call it a weasel."
"I'd bump into cleverer people at a lodge meeting of the Guild of Village Idiots."
"You see, the thing about heaven is that heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in heaven. Like, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot plants."
Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)
Prince George (Hugh Laurie)
Reeds waren wij zo ver van 't woud verwijderd,
dat ik de plaats niet had teruggevonden,
al ware ik weergekeerd op mijn schreden,
toen wij een schaar verdoemden tegenkwamen,
die voortjoeg langs de dijk, en elk dier geesten
tuurde op naar ons, als wandelaars in 't donker
bij nieuwe maan elkander steeds begluren.
Uit Dante's Divina Commedia
Leonard Bernstein
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
"Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again."
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
E.A. Poe
"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and we are slaves, though men call us free."
"...and a smile played and lingered about his boyish lips, and lit up with a bright lustre his dark woodland eyes."
"Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viola or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."
"The only way tot get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"There is no sin except stupidity."
Oscar Wilde
"I shall despair.
There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?"
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
W. Shakespeare
"Literature
has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers,
routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
John Cheever
Literature
transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from
everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still
unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the
presence of the literary.
Terry Eagleton
"How strong do you like your coffee? Because I've built up such a tolerance to it I usually make it too intense for most people."
"I can't stop drinking the coffee. If I stop drinking coffee, I stop the standing and the walking and the putting words in to sentence -doing."
Lorelai Gilmore
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
Don't be ridiculous, Baldrick. You know me. I mean, I laugh in the face of fear and tweak the nose of the dreadful spindly killer fish.
Percy
(Blackadder II, episode 3)
The only reason for having children, as far as I can see, is so they can look after you when you'r old and useless.
I didn't mean anything. About anything, to anyone. And I knew that guaranteed me a long, depressionfree life.
A person's life is like a tv-show. I'm the star of The Will Show and The Will Show is not an ensemble drama.
from "About a Boy"
"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."
"[...] as touchy and ready to lash out as the average Blast-Ended Skrewt."
"The Inner eye" said Professor Trelawney with dignity, straightening her shawls and many streams of glittering beads, "was fixed upon matters well outside the mundane realms of whooping voices."
"Wel, what Harry said is the most useful if we're trying to tell them apart! When we come face to face with one down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, "Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?" "
(Ron, on the difference between an Inferius and a ghost.)
Although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam-preferences before impersonating myself.
Side effects include vacant expression and minor drooling.
It is the unkown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J.K. Rowling
Mr Hubble as a tough high-shouldered stooping old man, of a saw-dusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinary wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane.
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
From 'Great Expectations', Charles Dickens
I may observe, for my own part, that many persons of general's rank certainly have an absurd habit of saying 'I have served my Tsar'... just as though they had not the same Tsar as all the rest of us, their simple fellow-subjects, but had a special Tsar of their own.
We shall never be capable of organising anything even without our heads, though our heads hinder our understanding more than anything.
From 'Devils', Fyodor Dostoyevski