John Nettles Quotes

#1. Birds of prey and fierce piranha enter not into Nirvana, where are neither thorns nor nettles, only soft and fragrant petals.

John Biccard

#2. The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

Ramakrishna

#4. My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

John Nettles

#5. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.

Mark Twain

#6. The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot get for stinging nettles.

John Baynes

#7. Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don't know any better." Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

#8. Football is my guilty pleasure.

John Nettles

#9. When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Jonathan Edwards

#10. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this?

Genevieve Dewey

#12. I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

John Nettles

#13. Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

Thomas Lynch

#14. Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

James Thomson

#15. Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Duke Of Wellington

#16. On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

John Nettles

#17. I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.

John Nettles

#18. I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

John Nettles

#19. Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

John Nettles

#20. That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.

Lucy Maud Montgomery