Top 47 Fitzhugh Quotes
#1. I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter
Ray Palla
#2. Good Gad! It looks like the last act of Hamlet in here.
Turnip banged his head against his clenched fists, making inarticulate moaning noises.
Pinchingdale gave him an odd look. 'I had no idea you felt so strongly about the play, Fitzhugh.
Lauren Willig
#3. Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?'
'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.'
'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.
Louise Fitzhugh
#4. I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this.
Louise Fitzhugh
#5. [Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.
Louise Fitzhugh
#6. Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.
George Fitzhugh
#7. Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.
Louise Fitzhugh
#8. Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.
Louise Fitzhugh
#10. WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.
Louise Fitzhugh
#12. Why am I a loser? She sat very still.
Because it pleases my father.
Louise Fitzhugh
#13. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.
Louise Fitzhugh
#14. I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.
Louise Fitzhugh
#15. Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.
Louise Fitzhugh
#16. This was too much. I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.
Louise Fitzhugh
#17. Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.
Louise Fitzhugh
#19. According to NYPD figures, a contract killing could be had in Brooklyn for a mere $500. More often than not, though, people in New York were killed for free.
Bill Fitzhugh
#20. All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.
Louise Fitzhugh
#21. I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU.
Louise Fitzhugh
#23. Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.
Louise Fitzhugh
#24. LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?
Louise Fitzhugh
#25. Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth
Louise Fitzhugh
#26. I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.
Louise Fitzhugh
#27. Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.
George Fitzhugh
#28. It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.
Louise Fitzhugh
#30. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson
#31. If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.
Louise Fitzhugh
#32. Writers don't care what they eat. They just care what you think of them
Louise Fitzhugh
#33. But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.
George Fitzhugh
#34. SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I KNOW IT. EVERY TIME I HAD A BAD DREAM I FEEL LIKE LEAVING TOWN. THEN I FEEL THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND THIS IS THE WORST DREAM I'VE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
Louise Fitzhugh
#35. THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER.
Louise Fitzhugh
#38. If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.
Louise Fitzhugh
#40. Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.
Louise Fitzhugh
#42. YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.
Louise Fitzhugh
#43. Harriet: Is it fun being married?
Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.
Louise Fitzhugh
#44. First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
Fitzhugh Dodson
#45. When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
#46. Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights.
Louise Fitzhugh
#47. She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you.
Harriet, on what Ole Golly says
Louise Fitzhugh
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