Twits Quotes

• Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Age, Born, Bigger

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Twits”, p.11, Penguin

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Positive Attitude, Ugly

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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  Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Kissing, Hug

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.206, Bantam

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Long, Looks

  Roald Dahl (1998). “The Witches”, Puffin

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

  Penelope Keith

  Nice, Communication, Voice

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• The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspiring, Book, Secret Places

  Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

  Molly Ivins

  Citizens, Egocentric, Fellows

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• I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

  Roald Dahl

  Advice, Valuable, Comment

  "Fictional character: Mr. F.F. "Foxy" Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", 2009.

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• You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

  Prince Philip

  Silly, Littles, Classic

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• The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teenage, War, Guy

  "Rough Month for President Obama", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

  Plautus

  Home, Looks, Faults

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1872). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.201

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• All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Views, Done

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by whatever, it's not there. The kids today-what the hell are they going to be? I like young people - yes, I do. But when I talk to people at the schools, and they say, "I saw you on the Twit," I don't even know what they are talking about.

  Manolo Blahnik

  I Like You, School, Kids

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Sacrifice, Compassion

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• [...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Intelligent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “About a Boy”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

  Tim Worstall

  Able, Damn, Mindless

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• If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Nuts, Guy

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

  Neil Gaiman

  Tolerance, Levels

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• I can't figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can't tell who is saying something and who's replying to something. I don't know who the tweeter is and who's responding to the twit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Way, Figures, Responding

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• I'm just the last English twit, really.

  Colin Firth

  Lasts

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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