Quotes About Boffin

#1. Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

Charles Dickens

#2. Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.

Sam Byers

#3. I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen, ... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

Charles Dickens

#4. Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

#5. "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

#6. In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

Bruce Dickinson

#7. Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him.

Charles Dickens

#8. You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions.

Scott Westerfeld

#9. The Wendigo is simply the Call of the Wild personified, which some natures hear to their own destruction.

Algernon Blackwood

#10. My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

Michael Wilbon

#11. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant.

Derek Landy

#12. Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They

Ford Madox Ford

#13. The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.

Karen Armstrong

#14. L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

James Luther Adams

#15. Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.

Chelsea Cain

#17. My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Ian Holloway

#18. I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.

Eve

#19. I hope that something better comes along.

Jim Henson

#20. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

Scott Westerfeld

#21. We've got now,' ( ... ) 'And I've got you. And that's all I want.

Patrick Ness