Ignatius Reilly Quotes

#1. I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Stephan Pastis

#2. I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

John Kennedy Toole

#4. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.

Flannery O'Connor

#5. You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

Drake

#6. All monsters must die except the beautiful ones

Cameron Jace

#7. The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge ... New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

John Kennedy Toole

#8. Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

Rick Barnett

#9. Where does such tenderness come from
And what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer?

Marina Tsvetaeva

#10. It is a fact that people are always well aware of what is due them.
Unfortunately, they remain oblivious of what they owe to others.

Francis De Sales