Top 100 Bray Quotes
#1. There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.
Edward Lear
#2. Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.
Hillary Jordan
#3. It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
Mark Twain
#4. Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
Matthew Collings
#5. Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
Winifred Holtby
#6. Mr. Paggle lifted his own ale in the air. "What shall we toast to?"
"Yarrow's right hook?" Peer said.
"Bray's unladylike nerve?" Arlow suggested.
"To new friends," Yarrow said.
"New friends," they agreed. Their glasses clinked merrily.
March McCarron
#7. She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey.
Gillian Flynn
#8. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
John Milton
#9. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter.
Stephen King
#10. The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.
Tristan MacManus
#12. Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.
Malachy McCourt
#13. Bell, book, and candle, candle book and bell, forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt,a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day
Christopher Marlowe
#14. Jail,' the big cop said in his stuffy, liquid voice. 'Where anything you bray will be abused against you in a sort of caw.
Stephen King
#15. The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray ...
William Butler Yeats
#16. He was about to kill another animal just as innocent as the one he mounted to his walls. This one, though, wasn't to be taken by sport, but by malice. Bray
Mike Kilroy
#17. For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles
#19. The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.
Madame Roland
#20. Bray is where I live; it's a seaside resort. It's a nice place to walk up there and stuff, on the coast. There's crosses along on top of it.
Tristan MacManus
#21. An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
#22. They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.
Libba Bray
#23. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.
Libba Bray
#24. It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
Libba Bray
#25. When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
Libba Bray
#26. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.
Libba Bray
#27. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.
Libba Bray
#28. How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?
Libba Bray
#29. Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way?
Kartik~What way?
Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit?
Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
Libba Bray
#30. A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
Libba Bray
#31. What if I choose the dream instead?
Libba Bray
#32. My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.
Libba Bray
#33. I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
Libba Bray
#34. demanding what we want ignores the other person's sense of control and they will want to resist us.
Bob Bray
#35. She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
Libba Bray
#36. Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
Libba Bray
#37. I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
Libba Bray
#38. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.
Libba Bray
#39. They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
Libba Bray
#40. Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore ... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more ...
Libba Bray
#41. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
#42. Sometimes when Sam's pretending to be in love with me, my stomach does funny things."
"Well, get some milk of magnesia and stop it.
Libba Bray
#43. You evah hear of a magic screw?'
I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
Libba Bray
#44. Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
Libba Bray
#45. My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Libba Bray
#46. We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray
#47. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
Libba Bray
#49. Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.
Carys Bray
#50. Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another.
Peter Bray
#51. Okay. That's fair. Abso-tive-ly fair. Let's say the tables were turned. If I were about to walk off a cliff, what would you do?"
Evie pursed her lips. "Push?"
"I don't believe that."
"You would on the way down.
Libba Bray
#52. Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
Libba Bray
#53. One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me!
Libba Bray
#54. Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.
Libba Bray
#55. Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail
Libba Bray
#56. He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
Libba Bray
#57. You will remember me for what I truly am: A God!
Bray Wyatt
#58. It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.
Tim Bray
#59. sometimes a little crazy is all you need
Libba Bray
#60. When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
Libba Bray
#61. I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
Libba Bray
#62. Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don't have no nine lives.
Libba Bray
#63. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!
Libba Bray
#65. She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone.
Libba Bray
#66. Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.
Libba Bray
#67. No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
Libba Bray
#68. The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
Libba Bray
#69. The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.
Libba Bray
#70. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.
Libba Bray
#71. Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead."
"He's not dead; just very tired.
Libba Bray
#72. He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.
Libba Bray
#73. Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.
Libba Bray
#74. Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
Tara Bray Smith
#75. Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
Libba Bray
#76. You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
Libba Bray
#77. Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway!
Libba Bray
#78. I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
Libba Bray
#79. Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
Libba Bray
#80. Ohmigosh. No food at all." Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. She blinked back tears. And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. "I am going to be so superskinny by pageant time!
Libba Bray
#82. Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia,
Libba Bray
#83. She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
Libba Bray
#84. We've the right to dream, and that, I suppose, is the magic's greatest power: the notion that we can pick possibility from the trees like ripe fruit.
Libba Bray
#85. You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
Libba Bray
#86. Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
Libba Bray
#87. But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
Libba Bray
#88. War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
Libba Bray
#89. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
Libba Bray
#90. I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.
Libba Bray
#91. There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.
Libba Bray
#93. I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker."
"There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum.
"Really? What do you call them?"
"Alcoholics.
Libba Bray
#94. She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
Libba Bray
#95. I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.
Libba Bray
#96. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.
Libba Bray
#97. Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.
Libba Bray
#98. Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high
Libba Bray
#99. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
Libba Bray
#100. I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
Libba Bray
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