Top 19 Leigh Fermor Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Leigh Fermor

#1. 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

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

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#3. 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

#4. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere.

Zadie Smith

#6. English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

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

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#8. There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. If you have a lip ring try hanging some tiny keys from it. This will make you look even more interesting.

Demetri Martin

#10. 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

#11. This guy makes my head spin. He's just so reasonable. I don't have any defense against it. Against him and his damn sexy self. Damn it.

Kristen Callihan

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

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#13. I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick