Top 41 Lisbeth Quotes
#1. Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
A.O. Scott
#2. But it was not over for Lisbeth Salander. This was only the first day of the rest of her life. At
Stieg Larsson
#3. Yeah. I'm the secret love child of Hercule Poirot and Lisbeth Salander.
Salla Simukka
#4. In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.
Stieg Larsson
#5. Don't ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she'll get a bigger gun.
Stieg Larsson
#6. He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.
Stieg Larsson
#7. I am a sadistic pig, a pervert and a rapist. - Lisbeth Salander, Millennium
Stieg Larsson
#8. Take it all off. I don't intend to fuck somebody in his underwear. And you have to use a condom. I know where I've been, but I don't know where you've been. - Lisbeth Salander
Stieg Larsson
#9. I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?
David Lagercrantz
#10. With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
Derek Blasberg
#11. When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.
Stieg Larsson
#12. If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.
David Lagercrantz
#13. We'll make leadplant tea instead of coffe.Just tell them it's imported." Jesse whispered.
"Mama,you taught me never to lie," LisBeth chided.
"Well,it is imported-from the prairie!
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#14. Lisbeth, though disposed always to take the negative side in her conversations with Seth, had a vague sense that there was some comfort and safety in the fact of his piety, and that it somehow relieved her from the trouble of any spiritual transactions on her own behalf.
George Eliot
#15. We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.
Stieg Larsson
#16. Kindness, laughter, and love are essentials for a good life. Everything else is negotiable.
Lisbeth Darsh
#18. She had discovered that the most effective method of keeping the fear at bay was to fantasize about something that gave her a feeling of strength. She closed her eyes and conjured up the smell of gasoline.
Stieg Larsson
#19. When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.
Carl Icahn
#20. There can be no success in sales without tenacity.
Chris Murray
#21. To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.
Stieg Larsson
#23. Happiness is a hundred choices. A thousand choices. A million choices. All day long. Every day. Every week. Every year of your life.
Lisbeth Darsh
#25. At some point on the morning of the second day she came to a terrifying realisation. She had no idea how it had happened or how she was supposed to cope with it. She was in love for the first time in her life.
Stieg Larsson
#26. If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.
Maurice Greene
#27. It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.
Evan Peters
#28. What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.
Stieg Larsson
#29. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.
Stieg Larsson
#30. Rise like the magnificent human being you are.
Lisbeth Darsh
#31. Hey, you fucking creep, in this shithole! I've got a monopoly on that one.
Stieg Larsson
#32. Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
Stephen Covey
#33. The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
H.L. Mencken
#34. Zalachenko ... you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.
Stieg Larsson
#35. There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
Stieg Larsson
#36. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13
Shawn Achor
#40. Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.
Billy Graham
#41. The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.
Richard Carlson
