Silly Quotes - Page 14

• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

  Sarah MacLean

  Names, Important, Titles

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• Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Way, Want

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• I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sadness, Two, Sick

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Best of Oscar Wilde”, p.164, Jaico Publishing House

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• Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!

  Rick Riordan

  Nasty, Humans, Persons

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.189, Penguin UK

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• I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Ridiculous, Accents

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• They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Dream, Song

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1775, Bantam

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• Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

  Christopher Paolini

  Healing, People, Needs

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1555, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

  Stephen Fry

  Language, Distinction, Pedantic

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• One does silly things when one is twelve.

  Cassandra Clare

  Twelve, Doe, Infatuation

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.704, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

  Cassandra Clare

  Upset, Shadow, Hunters

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• Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sorry, Fall, Voice

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.303, Penguin

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• I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

  Jane Austen

  People, Done, Wickedness

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

  Veronica Roth

  Funny, Girl, Mean

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• That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan,” said Will. “Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?” Benedict’s dark eyes hardened. “Insolent puppy—” “Oh, I’d say she was a friend,” said Tessa. “One doesn’t usually let one’s business associates lick one’s face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I’m only a silly woman.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Dark, Faces

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• In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Heart, Alive

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.237, Penguin

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• A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Men, Way

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.270, Delphi Classics

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• Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

  Tamora Pierce

  Sorry, Mistress, Said

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• How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked. "He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh." "Of course," I said. "Silly me.

  Rick Riordan

  Doe, Duh, Rewards

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• What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Feelings, Way, Action

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #11: To Be a King”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Gay, Agreement

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• Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

  Stephenie Meyer

  World, Silly Things

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.352, Hachette UK

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• Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

  Kim Harrison

  Needs, Use, Paper

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• I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Strong, Self, Hands

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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