Quotes About Fawkes

#1. To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

Peter Ackroyd

#2. First of all, Harry, I want to thank you," said Dumbledore, eyes twinkling again. "You must have shown me real loyalty down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you.

J.K. Rowling

#3. We are more than the bodies we inhabit," Fawkes said. "They're little more than clothes, and yet we judge so much by them.

Michael J. Sullivan

#4. Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand. Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes. On

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics.

Michael Leunig

#7. Guy Fawkes Night,

Neil Gaiman

#8. The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

Terry Deary

#9. Io Omega, this is the Fawkes Faux Fox. We're leaving on a harvesting run. Not going far and won't be but a few minutes. Open Tartarus Gate, would you?

Richard Roberts

#10. I'd say "what are the odds?", but I don't believe in odds anymore. I believe in a universe with a very specific and occasionally cruel sense of humor. But its cruelty is refining, if you survive it.
(Upon learning a housemate was related to Guy Fawkes)

Adrian Lamo

#11. The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

David Lloyd

#12. Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

J.K. Rowling

#13. GUY FAWKES; OR, A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE GUNPOWDER TREASON, A.D. 1605; WITH A DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSPIRATORS, AND SOME NOTICES OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. BY THE REV. THOMAS LATHBURY, M.A.,

Thomas Lathbury

#14. Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.

David Lloyd

#15. Lo, Fawkes,' said Harry quietly. He stroked the phoenix's beautiful scarlet and gold plumage. Fawkes blinked peacefully up at him. There was something comforting about his warm weight.

J.K. Rowling

#16. [ ... ] let us go with all our "devils" to the help of our "god"!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Guy Fawkes

#18. Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.

Madeleine L'Engle

#19. Everything that happens here, every choice involving you is mine to make, not yours. So from this moment on, you're to stop making decisions, and enjoy the freedom that comes with that."

Sara Fawkes

#20. If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. In all things a calm heart must prevail

Steven Fawkes

#22. At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Jacqueline Bisset

#23. What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?

Billy Connolly

#24. Jessica, we will prevail," he assured me, leaning over to nuzzle my neck the way I loved. "You have to believe that. You're not going to be fighting this alone.

Amanda Carlson

#25. We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

#26. Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.

Sara Zarr

#27. I am afraid of darkness ... even though it knows me it loves me.

Ray Fawkes