Best Alf Quotes

#1. Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

A.A. Gill

#2. Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed.

Fredrik Backman

#3. As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

John Darnielle

#4. A 'alf-litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much.

George Orwell

#5. You don't get to choose your siblings,' mutters Alf. Elsa

Fredrik Backman

#6. There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.

Jerry Vlasak

#7. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.

Alfred Nestor

#8. The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Glenn Greenwald

#9. There is solidarity in the running community, and that includes support beyond just the running.

Dana L. Ayers

#10. Looking at the fire on the stone.

Daae ALF

#11. Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

Charlotte Laws

#12. Mine means 'body,' Tanu interjected.
'Wow, that's so eerie,' ALF said. 'Because ... you have a body.

Megan McCafferty

#13. After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.

R.D. Ronald

#14. I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.

Ted Nugent

#15. Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

Wild Bill Hickok

#16. I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Dick Cavett

#17. the English drinking their 'alf and 'alf out of pewter mugs, the French drinking their claret out of very thin glasses, while our Russian shipmates and ourselves drank something harder out of thick glasses which were very small at the bottom.

Charles Erskine

#18. Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility.

Fredrik Backman

#19. Why don't you lift the end?" said Alf. "It's me back, Alf," complained Mack. "You know how it troubles me." "No more than mine troubles me," said Alf. "But I said it first," said Mack.

Dave Barry

#20. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.

Jerry Stahl

#21. Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Alf Landon

#22. At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I'd ever had.

Alfred Nestor

#23. I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Alf Landon

#24. What I love about jewelry is you can change it for something else without surgery.

Joan Rivers

#25. They looked plainly scared, except for one, a wiry boy with bright orange hair - not the largest of the lot, but the one who seemed to be in charge. He had an air about him, Alf thought, the look of a boy who doesn't miss much.

Dave Barry

#26. You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

John Ruskin

#27. A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Alf Landon

#28. I'm wearing this fake smile.

Daae ALF

#29. I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

Ingrid Newkirk

#30. Don't let your fear hold you back, Jaz." - Alf Abrahamsen

A.Z. Green

#31. Even Alf is not humorous at times.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie.
"You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him.
"Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.

Connie Willis

#33. Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.

P.G. Wodehouse

#34. Sir," James asked, "what are we going to do?"
"We're going to look for water," said Alf.
"And food?" said Tubby Ted.
"Water first," said Alf. "We can go days without food."
"We can what?" Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry