Top 32 Quotes About Falstaff: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Falstaff

#1. Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.

Jasper Fforde

#3. The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

#4. I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

Ray Stevenson

#5. Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.

J.R. Partington

#6. A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

William Shakespeare

#7. FALSTAFF
Where's Bardolph?
Page
He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.
FALSTAFF
I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in
Smithfield: an' I could get me but a wife in the
stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.

William Shakespeare

#8. The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.

Harold Bloom

#9. Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

Ben Okri

#10. The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Bill Veeck

#11. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare

#12. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

William Shakespeare

#13. The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.

Chris Fabry

#14. Sometimes when troops are overseas working these incredibly long hours in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.

Kyrsten Sinema

#15. We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Lydia Sigourney

#16. If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Isadora Duncan

#17. How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?

William Shakespeare

#18. Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Carl Sandburg

#19. Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

William Shakespeare

#20. It's better to die by a Demon's touch than to survive an Angel's backstab-Poem by Christos C. Kallis

Christos Kallis

#21. The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

Nate Ruess

#22. You can never be happy unless you learn to love yourself.

Jeffrey Fry

#23. There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#24. You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

Thomas Hardy

#25. The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

Rene Girard

#26. You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Earl Nightingale

#27. If the press was, as David Riesman called it, "the gunpowder of the mind," the computer, in its capacity to smooth over unsatisfactory institutions and ideas, is the talcum powder of the mind.

Neil Postman