Top 100 Quotes About Jolly
#1. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.
Julie Murphy
#2. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
William Blake
#3. And I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning or a single tiresome joke.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.
Arthur M. Jolly
#5. Clearly it is God's will to place me in such a predicament," declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, "So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.
Stephen J. Day
#6. And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?"
"The Foresail?"
"Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called ... "
... "The Next Sail, Sir?"
"Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.
L.A. Meyer
#7. A rather jolly little pony, quite possibly wearing a straw hat with holes cut out for its ears.
Terry Pratchett
#8. People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.
Jimmy Buffett
#9. HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
Alice Walker
#10. The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#11. The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.
C.S. Lewis
#13. Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare ... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.
David Jolly
#16. The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!
L.M. Montgomery
#17. Lucky Luke: I wonder how you manage to read with everything that's going on.
Jolly Jumper: By turning the pages just like everyone else.
Morris
#18. They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
Shia Labeouf
#20. This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
Margaret Thatcher
#22. What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
Stephen Fry
#23. Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.
Rose Macaulay
#24. I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
Lord Mountbatten
#25. One of the things that makes folks even more jolly is knowing there're people who ain't.
Terry Pratchett
#26. I say we put a choice card in every veteran's hands to say, 'You choose.' You control your health care. If you want to go to the VA, which most veterans like, go to the VA. But if you want to go outside of the system, here's your choice card. You go outside of the system.
David Jolly
#27. O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!
To fly would be folly,
To stay would be jolly
And listen and hark
Till the end of the dark
to our tune
ha! ha!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
L.M. Montgomery
#29. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.
Alison Jolly
#30. I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
Thomm Quackenbush
#31. Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.
Rube Foster
#32. If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten.
Graham Chapman
#33. Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack Skellington: *No.*
[the Mayor switches to his upset face]
Jack Skellington: How *jolly*!
Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be
Tim Burton
#34. Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett
#35. I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.
Sophie Hannah
#36. A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Mary Wesley
#38. I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead.
Ralph Blane
#39. You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
Jean Nidetch
#40. I come from the ocean with songs of the sea
No lesson for learning, just play upon me
Now go make your music in lands near and far
Orion protects you wherever you are
Jimmy Buffett
#41. Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees.
William Johnson Cory
#42. I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.
Phil Ochs
#43. Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.
Mary Virginia Terhune
#44. Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.
Arthur M. Jolly
#45. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
Robert Baden-Powell
#46. A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
George Ade
#47. In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
Dick Cavett
#48. Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.
Ewan McGregor
#49. Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
Arthur M. Jolly
#50. I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored this observation away for later use; it was a jolly good thing to know for anyone practicing the art of detection.
Alan Bradley
#51. O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin
#53. Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.
Robert Baden-Powell
#54. Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.
Aldous Huxley
#55. We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.
Ngaio Marsh
#56. I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
Arthur M. Jolly
#58. In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.
Princess Margaret
#59. Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.
Julia Sweeney
#60. A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Charlotte Rampling
#61. Everything is going to be just fiiiiine
D.I. Jolly
#62. The trip to Ireland ... ' her father was saying.
'Is to determine his legitimacy,' Wyndham confirmed. And then, with a morbidly jolly expression, he continued, 'It's going to be quite a party. Even my grandmother is going.
Julia Quinn
#63. [The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.
Mary Allsebrook
#64. What does Austin need to move that large car? Powers!
Steve Jolly
#66. What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
Belle Boyd
#67. We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.
Dave Barry
#68. What if thou be saint or sinner,
Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,
Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
When Death thee shall call.
All like are rich or richer,
King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
When the grave hides all.
Richard Watson Gilder
#69. There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
Prince Charles
#70. God's forgiveness doesn't come cheaply, nor is it a ticket to do what we jolly well please because there's a get out of jail free card at the end. Instead, it is the life-changing embrace of love that welcomes us when we've no reason to expect it. We cannot fail deeply enough for God to give us up.
Peggy Haymes
#71. You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
Anne Tyler
#72. They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
Louise Jameson
#73. We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
Ogden Nash
#74. The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.
Marie-Pierre Moine
#75. If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion.
E. M. Forster
#76. I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.
Joanna Trollope
#77. Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured.
William Styron
#78. Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.
Kai Meyer
#79. I am now scowling."
"You are. And its adorable. But only in small doses."
"Well, we cannot all be ridiculously jolly like you."
"Ah, but we should.
Chelsea Fine
#80. Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people.
L.M. Montgomery
#81. Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.
Walter De La Mare
#82. How about that one?"
"That fat thing?"
"Amber, it is a Christmas tree. It is supposed to be fat and jolly looking, like Santa Clause.
Sarah Holman
#83. How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#84. Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Francis Beaumont
#85. Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.
Terry Gilliam
#86. Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a jolly good cry And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you jolly well die.
Alexander McCall Smith
#87. Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
Alison Jolly
#88. You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.
David Frost
#89. Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.
Helen Valentine
#90. Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.
Susan Elia MacNeal
#93. All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
A.P. Herbert
#95. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
A.P. Herbert
#96. There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.
Isaac Bickerstaffe
#97. People are just people, no matter where you go.
Rick D. Jolly
#98. It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
Georg Brandes
#99. Death can be jolly well inconvenient, if you ask me.
Gail Carriger
#100. We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
Hermann Hesse
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