Biddy's Quotes

#1. If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

Carl Sandburg

#3. She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy, Granny used to say.

Fredrik Backman

#4. Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

Lily Allen

#5. I'm just an Irish biddy.

Judy Garland

#6. One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,,

Kish

#7. Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two?

Charles Dickens

#8. It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Thomas Bulfinch

#9. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.

Charles Dickens

#10. Give people time. Give people space. Don't beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What's meant for you will always be yours.

Reyna Biddy

#11. And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Saul Bellow

#12. Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

Jenny McCarthy

#13. I've learned more about myself in solitude. I've both driven myself crazy and found peace. I've realized the power in just letting shit be.

Reyna Biddy

#14. O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind -

Charles Dickens

#15. Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right, all I can say is, - they were quite right too. Chapter

Charles Dickens

#17. A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed.

Bethany Knox

#18. The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

Mason Cooley

#19. If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, ponytails.. Just leave it.

Reyna Biddy

#20. Only when you cultivate your talents and gifts you prosper

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.

Clay Matthews III

#22. I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Jimmy Carter

#23. Come, my pretender, my fritter,
my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
Oh succulent one,
it is but one turn in the road
and I would be a cannibal!

Anne Sexton

#24. When a person is dying inside, she doesn't need a jester." Biddy set the bandages in his hands. "She needs a champion.

Sarah M. Eden

#25. I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure, and for not stopping him, until that interfering old biddy Eurycleia confessed that she alone had aided and abetted him.

Margaret Atwood

#26. You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Caroline Knapp