Deary Quotes

#1. Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.

Dewitt Bodeen

#2. Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.

John Flanagan

#3. But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, Does anything trouble you, deary?

Louisa May Alcott

#4. Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#5. If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Betty Friedan

#6. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.

Terry Deary

#7. then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English

Terry Deary

#8. Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

William Shakespeare

#9. Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Alan Valentine

#10. Clean plates don't lie.

Dan Barber

#11. Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8.

Terry Deary

#12. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

#13. Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Terry Deary

#14. The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

Terry Deary

#15. Some people handle life admirably. And other people really don't. Some get stuck in hideous deforming places and postures and become ever more unbearable versions of themselves.

Vincent Deary