Fermor Quotes

#1. I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on

Oscar Wilde

#2. Live, don't know how long,
And die, don't know when;
Must go, don't know where;
I am astonished I am so cheerful.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#3. South of the Danube, by offering a spoonful of sherbet

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#4. My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

Spike Milligan

#5. The automatic use of Du, even to strangers if they were friends of friends, was very surprising. Sie, it seemed, meant relegation to the outer darkness and people had been known to fight with swords about the matter.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#6. I'll make you a deal. You can come with me to the meeting - if we can work out an agreeable plan - but you don't kill him until I get what I want. I have less than a week. Can you live with that time line?

Katie Reus

#7. Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

Victor Hugo

#8. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.

Georges Bernanos

#9. Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Marcus Samuelsson

#10. You've gone drinking?" Ashton asked.
"She was quite the lushington the other night. But don't worry, I took her home okay."
"You took me to the basement to go hunting for vicious killer automata."
"Well, yeah, but it was at home.

Lev A.C. Rosen

#11. One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Nick Mason

#12. And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#13. I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Anita Roddick

#14. And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

Viola Davis

#15. If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.

Whitfield Diffie

#16. I lay in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asteriks. A little more, I felt, and I would have gone up like a rocket.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#17. All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Louise Erdrich

#18. [Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#19. The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#20. I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#21. Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#22. All horsepower corrupts.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#23. I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke, I couldn't think where I was.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#24. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.

Cameron West