Top 100 Dudley Quotes
#1. Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.
J.K. Rowling
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.
James Ellroy
#9. So how is it your brother is Dudley Do-Right and you're Mad Max? I asked.
Nina Lane
#10. Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley, but that was before he met Draco Malfoy.
J.K. Rowling
#11. Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average.
Satyajit Das
#12. Don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer. . . .
J.K. Rowling
#13. Dudley snatched Blanchard's plate. That lad shouting racial slurs may be offending Dr. Ashida. Please take him someplace secluded and kick the shit out of him.
James Ellroy
#14. He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone "dumpy," when his own son, Dudley, had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall.
J.K. Rowling
#15. No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer.
Jim Butcher
#16. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
Barry Humphries
#17. But, dear, if he got lost, how would we ever explain to his aunt and uncle?" "They wouldn't mind," Harry reassured her. "Dudley would think it was a brilliant joke if I got lost up a chimney, don't worry about that -
J.K. Rowling
#18. They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
"Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
"Make Harry get it."
"Get the mail, Harry."
"Make Dudley get it."
"Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
J.K. Rowling
#19. You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially
Ken Bain
#20. No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.
J.K. Rowling
#21. Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
J.K. Rowling
#22. It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go?
J.K. Rowling
#23. Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.
Liza Minnelli
#24. Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.
J.K. Rowling
#25. Dudley came waddling down the hall, his blond hair plastered flat to his fat head, a bow tie just visible under his many chins.
J.K. Rowling
#26. At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having
J.K. Rowling
#27. Will you tell me that I'm just as good as Stan?"
Dudley hesitated. "Well, Stan's exceptional."
He looked again at G's sword. "But...yes. You are quite...good. Please don't kill me.
Cynthia Hand
#28. Jiggery pokery!" said Harry in a fierce voice. "Hocus pocus - squiggly wiggly - "
"MUUUUUUM!" howled Dudley, "He's doing you know what!
J.K. Rowling
#29. Your majesty, please reconsider," Lord Dudley pleaded. "Your position will be much stronger with your husband as king. The people will see it as a sign of strength - "
She took a deep breath. "They need signs of my strength, not my reliance on the men around me
Cynthia Hand
#30. Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel - Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
J.K. Rowling
#31. Harry had the best morning he'd had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him.
J.K. Rowling
#32. I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
Liza Minnelli
#34. You're wrong," Lord Dudley said. "You've always been a fool."
"The fool thinks he is wise," G retorted. "But the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
That was a great line, he thought. He tried to remember where he'd stashed the quill and paper.
Cynthia Hand
#35. Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry
J.K. Rowling
#36. Exactly why Dudley wanted a racing bike was a mystery to Harry, as Dudley was very fat and hated exercise - unless of course it involved punching somebody. Dudley
J.K. Rowling
#37. I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.
Harry Melling
#38. Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.
James Ellroy
#39. No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Sarah Vowell
#40. I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
Harry Melling
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.
Marion Dudley Cran
#52. It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
Dudley North
#53. 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
#54. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Charles Dudley Warner
#55. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Charles Dudley Warner
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner
#63. O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
but, baby, where are you?
Dudley Randall
#64. I think that music has an endless life.
Anne Dudley
#66. Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.
Dudley Moore
#67. I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Charles Dudley Warner
#68. You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
Anne Dudley
#69. If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.
Charles Dudley Warner
#70. You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.
Paul Dudley White
#71. A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
#73. No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
Dudley North
#74. Monsters were declared to be warnings against sin, individual or collective, and demonstrations of the anger and the glory of God.
Dudley Wilson
#75. A song was heard at Christmas
To wake the midnight sky:
A saviour's birth, and peace on earth,
And praise to God on high.
The angels sang at Christmas
With all the hosts above,
And still we sing the newborn King
His glory and his love.
Timothy Dudley-Smith
#76. It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.
Dudley North
#77. The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore
#78. Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
Charles Dudley Warner
#79. Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.
Dudley Moore
#80. His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber
Alison Weir
#81. In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.
Dudley Moore
#82. I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.
Dudley Randall
#83. Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Charles Dudley Warner
#84. I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
Anne Dudley
#87. Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.
Paul Dudley White
#89. The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
Charles Dudley Warner
#90. The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
Charles Dudley Warner
#91. Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
Charles Dudley Warner
#92. Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.
Timothy Dudley-Smith
#93. One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
Charles Dudley Warner
#94. Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.
Paul Dudley White
#95. Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
Charles Dudley Warner
#96. The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
Charles Dudley Warner
#97. Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
David Dudley Field II
#98. I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
Anne Dudley
#99. The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
Charles Dudley Warner
#100. My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
Anne Dudley
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