Ogre Quotes

#1. This particular ogre, who went by the name Skoorn, was (by ogreish standards) exceedingly clever, and he had developed a taste for what ogres call "screech melons.

Robert Kroese

#2. He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector

Eva Ibbotson

#3. He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Frank Herbert

#4. Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?

Julius Bailey

#5. I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Whitney Cummings

#6. Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid!

Charles Dickens

#7. Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Mitch Albom

#8. Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Rupert Giles

#9. You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature. This isn't Beauty and the Beast where my kiss would transform the monster to a prince. If anything, it's Shrek, and his kiss brings out the ogre in me.

Eliza Crewe

#10. Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. Allie took Nick and Mikey into the vault, and they sat there, a summit meeting of three questionable superpowers: a skinjacker, an ex-ogre, and a part-time monster.

Neal Shusterman

#12. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

#13. I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

Norton Juster

#14. Get your filthy hands off me."
Jake arched an eyebrow, not bothering to hide the smile that rose in response to her throaty growl. "My hands are clean, sweetheart. Habit of the trade. Aren't you a nasty little ogre in the morning?

Mira Lyn Kelly

#15. Oh. My. God. I'd been dissed. Majorly. Because I was an ugly, disgusting ogre. Snot was probably pouring from my nostrils onto the ground.

Autumn Doughton

#16. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.

Betsy Schow

#17. So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

Mike Myers

#18. This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

Emile Zola

#19. You really care for them, don't you? I wouldn't have expected it."
"Well, to paraphrase a famous fictional ogre, dragons are like onions - we have layers.

Julie Kagawa

#20. It was not an ogre's soul in that egg," said Toby in a burst of passionate despair. "It was mine.

L.M. Boston

#21. Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.

Joseph Jacobs

#22. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. What am I, a Frankenstein? What am I, some kind of an ogre? I'm a good person; I'm a warm person.

Donald Sterling

#24. He's not an ogre. Actually, at this point, he might think I'm the ogre.

Jamie McGuire

#25. She's a big girl, Syd, and Deke is not an ogre. He doesn't eat little pixies for breakfast and pick his teeth with their bones.

Jenny Lyn

#26. It's all about perspective, I suppose. As a rule, all of the various ogre breeds are on their best behavior here at the market." "This one looks as though he would like to break that rule." I swallowed. "He looks as though he would like to break it across my face.

William Ritter

#27. If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,

Christine Lagarde

#28. I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing ... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Claire Cameron

#29. But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.

Edgar Lee Masters

#30. Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

April Bloomfield

#31. If you're done playing with will-o'-the-wisps and kelpies, I think we should continue. Oh, but do tell me the next time you want to have tea with an ogre. I'll be sure to bring my club.
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#32. The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it's desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.

W. H. Auden

#33. Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

Charles Perrault

#34. A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual.

Jim C. Hines

#35. There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

John Garfield

#36. She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.

Brandon Mull