Top 100 Reginald Quotes
#1. REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)
Joyce Carol Oates
#2. I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
Moby
#3. I did it - I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops' garden-party against his will.
We all make mistakes occasionally.
Saki
#4. Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult ... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.
Jim Butcher
#5. Already she was hungry for all of it again. For them. No, for both sides of him. Whichever one the him was. And did it matter? Did it matter if Bones was really Reginald or Reginald was really Bones? Did that change anything? She
Lucian Bane
#6. Never," wrote Reginald to his most darling friend, "be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Saki
#7. It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.
Saki
#8. If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.
Frederick Buechner
#9. Crying for Bones, for his little pretend Reginald and even for X. X was Bones. Bones was X. Bones was Reginald. Her poor sweet angel. Shattered. Just like X had said. She
Lucian Bane
#10. Reginald Bones. Same man. Not two. Not two different men, even if they thought it. She needed to reach both. Hold on to both.
Lucian Bane
#11. Maurice laid down all of his cards, then said, Gin. Reginald looked up into Maurice's face and said, I thought we were playing poker and Maurice replied, That's your problem.
Johnny B. Truant
#12. And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Elton John
#13. Reginald, the dog-bear," I repeated.
"Or bear-dog," she reminded me.
"That's terrible," I said in mock solemnity. "He's already not sure what he is- a dog, a bear ... a bog ... "
She giggled.
"And then you tag him with the name Reginald?" I shook my head.
Stacey Kade
#14. Keep going, no matter what."
--Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---
Reginald F. Lewis
#15. I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me.
Shel Silverstein
#16. With us," said Reginald, "a Cabinet usually gets the credit of being depraved and worthless beyond the bounds of human conception by the time it has been in office about four years.
Saki
#17. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
Reginald Hill
#18. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#21. Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.
Reginald Hill
#22. The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
Reginald Heber
#23. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Reginald Heber
#24. I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.
Reginald Arvizu
#26. The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun that from his amber bower rejoiceth on his way, The Moon and Stars, their Master's name in silent pomp display.
Reginald Heber
#27. All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
Reginald Farrer
#28. The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever
Reginald Hill
#29. The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.
Reginald McKenna
#30. The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd - the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.
Reginald Heber
#31. There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
Reginald Rose
#32. There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#33. The general said: "It is not much use training specialists if you interfere with them," so as long as we did our job we were given a free hand.
Reginald Hugh Knyvett
#34. Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world , every sinful indulgence of our own passions , is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness , and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick bed with thorns and rack our sinking spirits with despair .
Reginald Heber
#35. So what to do? ... She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.
Reginald Hill
#36. Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.
Reginald Fessenden
#37. [In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.
Reginald Fessenden
#38. Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.
Reginald H. Garrett
#39. Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on
Reginald Hill
#40. Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#41. Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#42. Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.
Reginald Heber
#43. Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only way to carve a voice out of the air and have others hear it.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
#45. Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it.
Reginald Ray
#46. A class system is something you use to discriminate someone who looks like you
Reginald D. Hunter
#48. A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence
Reginald Hill
#50. When I die," said dear and whimsical old Doctor Pycroft, "I shall have a bell hung on my head-stone, with an inscription asking the compassionate passer-by to ring it long and loud. And I shan't get up.
Reginald L. Hine
#51. Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#53. Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?"
He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear.
If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.
Reginald Hill
#54. Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Reginald Heber
#56. The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#57. This chapter reveals and elaborates upon the exquisite beauty of protein structure.
Reginald H. Garrett
#58. Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#59. Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.
Reginald Aldworth Daly
#60. Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.
Reginald Rose
#61. To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#62. When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.
Reginald Heber
#63. The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#64. Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.
Reginald Arkell
#65. A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.
Reginald Arkell
#66. The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#67. We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#69. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Reginald Heber
#70. So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale.
Reginald De Koven
#72. When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.)
Reginald Dipwipple
#73. Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#75. The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.
Reginald Ray
#76. Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.
Reginald Heber
#77. Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.
Reginald Heber
#79. A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#80. By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!
Reginald Heber
#81. Put on the company hat. (Be willing to accept actions that may have a negative impact upon a particular component but are in the best interests of the company as a whole.)
Reginald H. Jones
#84. All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Reginald Fessenden
#85. There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
#86. There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#87. No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#88. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
Reginald Farrer
#89. From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
Reginald Heber
#90. Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#91. No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#92. No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
Reginald Heber
#93. The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.
Reginald Maudling
#94. I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.
Reginald Arvizu
#95. And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.
Reginald Fessenden
#96. It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.
Reginald Rose
#97. A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#98. At bottom each "exact" science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.
Reginald Aldworth Daly
#99. Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
Reginald Hill
#100. In going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.
Reginald Fessenden
