The Ice Monster Quotes

“YOUR MAJESTY, MY LORDS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,” he began again, his voice cracking with nerves.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“right t o be”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“As the museum’s head of security, I order you to open that door!” “I can’t.” “What do you mean, you can’t?” “Me hands have gone all floppy.” “What do you mean your hands ‘have gone all floppy’?” “Too much mopping!” “Well, I’ll open it, then.” “I wouldn’t if I was you.” “Why?” “I just blew off in there.” “You did what?” “I did a bottom burp in the cupboard so all the stuffed animals wouldn’t have to smell it. It’s a really stinky one. It would have peeled the paint off the walls.” “That doesn’t explain why you were talking.” “I was talking to my own bottom.” “You were talking to your bottom?” “Giving it a jolly good telling-off, Mr Clout, sir.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“and we’re in Victorian London. Meet the characters in the story… Elsie is a homeless orphan, who lives on the streets of London.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“Suddenly Dotty jumped up and down, looking as if she desperately needed a wee, but in actual fact she was just overexcited.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“over her mouth to stifle a giggle. She wouldn’t have had Her Majesty down as a heckler. Poor Lankester looked aghast, as you might if the most powerful person in the world was barracking you. The man tried to carry on as best he could. “YOUR MAJESTY, MY LORDS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,” he began again, his voice cracking with nerves. “As director of the Natural History Museum, it is a huge honour to house what I am sure you will all agree is the greatest find of the century. When a group of explorers set off across the Arctic…”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“the ice to allow”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“mind began dancing with pictures. Here she was stroking the animal’s fur. There she was riding on its back. Then she was being held by its long, furry trunk. Just as she was flying off into a land of make-believe, Elsie sensed someone standing right behind her.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“HELP! Someone’s trodden on me bits!”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“GGGRRRUUURRR! The noise of Woolly’s bottom burping sounded just like a bear growling.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“I’m too young to die.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“no. The Professor Osbert Bertram Cuthbert Farnaby Beverly Smith mammoth”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“Naughty bottom!” called out Dotty, slapping her own rear end. Just as”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“It's extraordinary," muttered the professor. "There's a special connection between them."
"Like me and me favourite mop," added Dotty.”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster

“The maggots will nibble off the dirt, you muck snipes!” Mrs Curdle would snigger. To dry off afterwards, she would peg the children to the washing line by their ears. TWANG! Once, when Elsie was found with a pet rat in her pocket that she had befriended, Mrs Curdle used it as a ball in a game of cricket. THUD! “EEEEEK!” WHIZZ!”
― David Walliams, The Ice Monster