Top 73 Cressida Quotes
#1. I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
Walter Legge
#2. Good; and what of him?
ALEXANDER
They say he is a very man per se,
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA
So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no
legs.
William Shakespeare
#3. Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them.
Cressida
Stuart Hill
#4. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)
Gilbert Highet
#5. She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].
Tina Packer
#6. good at.' Cressida turned and looked at Tilly.'Don't think that on Monday we will be instafriends because of this.' 'Totally. I actually really dislike you,' slurred Tilly,
Kate Forster
#7. reminded me on Friday night that we aren't friends, Cressida, and I would like you to remember that now,' she snapped. 'So why don't you go and make someone else feel crap about their life and then when you're done with that, go and look for your boyfriend's chin,
Kate Forster
#8. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?
James Joyce
#9. In slow drowning waves the knowledge washed over Cressida, her professor did not think that she was so special after all. He didn't know her father Zeno. Was that it?
Joyce Carol Oates
#10. What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
Natalie Dormer
#11. Shit! Cressida! Move!" The words were barely out of his mouth when he leapt forward and down, jumping six steps and rolling when he hit the bottom, catching her and tucking her against him. Above them, metal popped and the boulder slammed down, resealing the hole.
Rachel Grant
#12. I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross)
Caron Allan
#13. Chuckling, Josh backs away. "I'll leave you to Cressida and Noel then."
To his back, I call out, "For your information, it's Nigel!
Jenny Han
#14. But you are human, and just like the rest of us you have the potential to be both a devil and an angel. There's no such thing as an evil race, just a human race.
Cressida
Stuart Hill
#16. Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
Cressida Cowell
#17. He looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.1,080 rount
Cressida Cowell
#18. But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
Cressida Cowell
#19. And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
Cressida Cowell
#20. Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
William Shakespeare
#21. And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.
Cressida Cowell
#22. Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
Cressida Cowell
#23. Well, suffering swordfish," exclaimed Fishlegs. "Hiccup is LEFTHANDED.
Cressida Cowell
#24. GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!
Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful ... thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
Cressida Cowell
#25. I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!
Cressida Cowell
#26. The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
Cressida Cowell
#27. For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
Cressida Cowell
#28. The mighty bosoms of Big-Boobied Bertha had killed many a Warrior in mortal combat.
Cressida Cowell
#29. WARNING
Any Relationship to any historical fact WHATSOEVER is entirely coincidental. You have been WARNED
Cressida Cowell
#30. Oh, for Thor's sake ... " said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story ... "
"Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell
#32. Courage what is within is more important than what is without.
Cressida Cowell
#33. What you g-g-gonna do, tough guy? Tickle Toothless to d-d-death?
Cressida Cowell
#34. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
Cressida Cowell
#35. February turned into March and Hiccup was still thinking. A few flowers made the mistake of appearing and were immediately blasted out of existence by a couple of hard frosts that had kept themselves back for this very purpose.
Cressida Cowell
#36. The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.
Cressida Cowell
#38. "MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD ... OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH ... "
"Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.
Cressida Cowell
#40. History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
#41. I was not a natural ... This is the story of becoming ... the Hard Way.
Cressida Cowell
#42. Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.
Cressida Cowell
#43. Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way
Cressida Cowell
#44. The only GOOD Roman is a DEAD Roman," said Camicazi.
Hiccup sighed. "That isn't true. I'm sure there are LOADS of good Romans. But all the good Romans are probably quietly minding their own business back in Rome.
Cressida Cowell
#45. Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.
Cressida Cowell
#46. That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?
Cressida Cowell
#47. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.
Cressida Cowell
#48. Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
Cressida Cowell
#49. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...
Cressida Cowell
#51. CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.
Cressida Cowell
#52. Always sailing, sailing, sailing ... never quite reaching.
Cressida Cowell
#53. My poison is creeping through his body.
My strong venom is killing his heart.
Cressida Cowell
#54. A Chief must show no fear, no worry ... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second ...
Cressida Cowell
#55. Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
Cressida Cowell
#56. The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares.
The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
Cressida Cowell
#57. I didn't mean to come here ...
And I didn't mean to stay ...
It's just where the sea wind blew me
One accidental day ...
Cressida Cowell
#58. The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
Cressida Cowell
#59. K-k-keep your helmet on. T-t-toothless doing his BEST.
Cressida Cowell
#60. Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
Cressida Cowell
#61. Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ...
"AAAAAAARGH!" screamed Hiccup.
Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor.
"Only j-j-joking," he said.
Cressida Cowell
#62. I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.
Cressida Cowell
#63. But Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with "Hiccup copped it. SORRY," and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
Cressida Cowell
#64. Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.
Cressida Cowell
#65. OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!
Cressida Cowell
#66. There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination
Cressida Cowell
#67. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
William Shakespeare
#68. I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
Cressida Cowell
#69. He says he comes in peace," said Hiccup "He's still going to kill us, though.
Cressida Cowell
#70. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
Cressida Cowell
#71. Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
Cressida Cowell
#72. Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
Cressida Cowell
#73. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
that I might water an ass at it!
William Shakespeare
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