Piggledy Quotes

#1. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Jan Morris

#2. I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

Elizabeth McCracken

#3. What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

J.B. Priestley

#4. The situation was absurd. He wore riding boots with spurs. Her hair tumbled about her like a shaggy pony's. They were in the schoolroom with the furniture pushed about higgledy-piggledy. But in that instant, she would have danced a fandango with a rose in her teeth if Lochinvar had asked her to.

Marissa Doyle

#5. Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce!

Alan Bradley

#6. When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though ...

Anna Friel

#7. Calling it as you see it, should include yourself as well.

Tony Curl

#8. Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

Samantha Bond

#10. I support helping the needy. I oppose funding the lazy.

Anonymous

#11. Finding the one who loves you is like lottery but you don't have to close up the page, just keep on searching and you'll find.

Auliq Ice

#12. Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.

Justin Trudeau

#13. Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

Todd Helton

#14. I see you're looking at my cuff buttons.
I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle.

#16. From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#17. There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.

Angela Carter

#18. We never lost that. As much as I tried, I
could never erase you from my heart. That's why I was such an asshole and kept guys away from you.
You were always mine.

Penelope Douglas

#19. Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Charlie Munger

#20. Being polite does not mean being mummified.

Judith Martin