Quotes - Cath Russell (The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 85

#1

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

902 likes

#2

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux

169 likes

#3

“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. ”
― Nigel Slater

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#4

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast

852 likes

#5

“Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

tags: comfort, crime, humor, irony, mysteries

116 likes

#6

“Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

253 likes

#7

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#8

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: death, humor

3473 likes

#9

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

2217 likes

#10

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

3639 likes

#11

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

2763 likes

#12

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

1860 likes

#13

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5011 likes

#14

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9134 likes

#15

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6894 likes

#16

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

1890 likes

#17

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2794 likes

#18

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18231 likes

#19

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

5004 likes

#20

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

1586 likes

#21

“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

tags: book-lovers, reading

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#22

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
― George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

tags: leisure, meditation, solitude

346 likes

#23

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3576 likes

#24

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
― Erin McKean

tags: beauty, feminism, not-diana-vreeland, prettiness

385 likes

#25