Scoresby Quotes

#1. conscious only of his movement upward, the last of Lee Scoresby passed through the heavy clouds and came out under the brilliant stars, where the atoms of his beloved daemons, Hester, were waiting for him.

Philip Pullman

#2. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.

Philip Pullman

#3. You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.

Philip Pullman

#4. And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

Philip Pullman

#5. There's another difference between us, Mr. Scoresby. A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves.

Philip Pullman

#6. Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

Laozi

#7. Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin

#8. What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Kenneth Fisher

#9. Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Philip Pullman

#10. The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Edmund Burke

#11. That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Lord Melbourne

#12. You are dead- what am I speaking to?

Philip Pullman