Etonian Quotes

#1. I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

Christopher Fowler

#3. You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner

#4. Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Charles Churchill

#5. Well, you know my type," Ty responded with a saccharine smile as he passed Zane's desk. "No self control and loads of mental issues.

Abigail Roux

#6. People can get used to almost anything.

Cathy Hapka

#7. A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

Jacqueline Winspear

#8. A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#9. For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

Marisa Miller

#10. Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

Rachel Gibson