Percy Blakeney Quotes

#1. And in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.

Emmuska Orczy

#2. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

#3. I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

Jennifer Damiano

#4. You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

Ken Follett

#5. When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

Terry Pratchett

#6. People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Gary L. Francione

#7. There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Brene Brown

#8. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

Gary Keller

#9. I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Billy Childish

#10. I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'

Kevin Connolly

#11. In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

#12. Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Dale Spender

#13. The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

David Levithan