Quotes About Guy 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. 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

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

Charlotte Bronte

#4. 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

#5. Guy Fawkes Night,

Neil Gaiman

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

Terry Deary

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Boredom is a disease, too.

Tommy Chong

#12. It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Jules Renard

#13. When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

Nhat Hanh

#14. New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.

Alister E. McGrath

#15. I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

Emily St. John Mandel

#16. Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

James Patterson

#17. Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Mark McCormack

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

Guy Fawkes