Top 23 William Steig Quotes
#1. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
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#2. I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.
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#3. And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.
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#4. Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
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#5. He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.
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#6. To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
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#7. Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,
Pay attention to this witch.
A donkey takes you to a knight
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
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#8. Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.
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#9. Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.
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#10. The damp occupants of the cave stood close together in the vaulted entrance like actors who had played their parts and could now watch the rest of the show from the wings.
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#11. The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.
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#12. Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?
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#14. His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.
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#16. Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.
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#17. I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
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#19. The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.
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#20. I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
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#21. How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?
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#22. When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.
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