Didapper Quotes

#1. He said "They were heartily welcome to his poor cottage", and turning to Mr. Didapper, cried out, 'Non mea renidet in domo lacunar.' The beau answered, "He did not understand Welsh"; at which the parson stared and made no reply.

Henry Fielding

#2. The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Jean Giraudoux

#3. What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don't always
match up.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#4. The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother?

Lesley Stahl

#5. The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#6. Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Stafford Cripps

#7. You make me forget how to breathe.

Kristen Proby

#8. Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

Alexander MacLaren

#9. She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Thomas Dolby

#10. I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.

Matthew Perry

#11. Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

Waverley Root

#12. He lowered his mouth and kissed me. I know I should have kneed him in the groin, but the kiss was delicious. Joe Morelli still knew how to kiss.

Janet Evanovich

#13. I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

Marie Osmond

#14. It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Cleveland Abbe

#15. Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control.

Rick Bragg