Dudley O'shaughnessy Quotes

#1. Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

#3. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles Dudley Warner

#4. The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Charles Dudley Warner

#5. If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Dudley North

#6. Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

Marion Dudley Cran

#7. Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

Anne Dudley

#8. There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles Dudley Warner

#9. The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.

Charles Dudley Warner

#10. Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Charles Dudley Warner

#11. Harry and Dudley promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen at the keyhole; Dudley won, so Harry, his glasses dangling from one ear, lay flat on his stomach to listen at the crack between door and floor.

J.K. Rowling

#12. What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles Dudley Warner

#13. It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

Marion Dudley Cran

#14. It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Dudley North

#15. To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

David Dudley Field II

#16. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Charles Dudley Warner

#17. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Paul Dudley White

#18. knew he shouldn't have risen to Dudley's bait, but Dudley had said the very thing Harry had been thinking himself . . . maybe

J.K. Rowling

#19. If I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly ... Always, the soil must come first.

Marion Dudley Cran

#20. The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley's favorite things - fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers - and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called rabbit food.

J.K. Rowling

#21. Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

Paul Dudley White

#22. Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer.

J.K. Rowling

#23. Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Anne Dudley

#24. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Charles Dudley Warner

#25. There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Dudley Warner

#26. To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

#27. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#28. The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Dudley Warner

#29. O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
but, baby, where are you?

Dudley Randall

#30. I think that music has an endless life.

Anne Dudley

#31. We couldn't even hear you, in the night ...
No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one else will come any nearer than that."
"I know," Eleanor said tiredly.
"In the night," Mrs. Dudley said, and smiled outright. "In the dark," she said..

Shirley Jackson

#32. It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Dudley Warner