Top 24 Quotes About The Basilisk
#1. Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
A. N. Wilson
#2. How is Oberon these days? Still being henpecked by that basilisk of a wife?"
"Don't insult the basilisk...
Julie Kagawa
#3. None save her people knew her history, but there were wonderful stories of how she had bowed to tradition, and concentrated in herself the characteristics of a thousand wizard fathers. In the blossom of her youth she had sought strange knowledge, and had tasted thereof, and rued.
("The Basilisk")
R. Murray Gilchrist
#4. When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.'
("The Basilisk")
R. Murray Gilchrist
#5. This fierce basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, supercilious wretch, will neither seek, serve, own, nor follow you in any shape whatever.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#6. Truth is disputable, not human taste.
David Hume
#8. I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Thomas Browne
#10. When in doubt, play dead. Well, unless you might be dealing with a ghoul, or a basilisk, or something else that likes its meat a little ripe. Actually, when in doubt, just start shooting. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#11. For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?
Seanan McGuire
#12. Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor ...
J.K. Rowling
#13. Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, top tangled to be taken apart."
I nodded. "It's true. So much of me is tied up in you. I feel kind of lost without you.
Kiera Cass
#14. This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as a software-controlled look-to-kill multiheaded basilisk. To
Charles Stross
#15. I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#16. Vaughn raised an eyebrow at their guarded expressions. "What, do I smell like wolf now?" He sniffed at his arm. "Nope. I smell like my gorgeous Red." A slow smile as he mentioned his mate and walked in.
Nalini Singh
#17. Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.
Francis Quarles
#19. She did not cease to look like a basilisk, but she began to look like a basilisk who has had a good lunch.
P.G. Wodehouse
#20. Harry looked at the frog and then at Song Lee. "I'm in love," he whispered. "With a frog?" I replied. "No! With her.
Suzy Kline
#21. Loyalty may be good news, but it is rarely good advice.
Michael Dobbs
#22. if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.
John Grisham
#24. Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.
John Gay
