Top 17 Sir Humphrey Appleby Quotes
#1. If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
Donna Lynn Hope
#2. Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.
Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
#3. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Peter O'Toole
#4. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#5. This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death - examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it - as a physician and a patient. He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.
Paul Kalanithi
#6. If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
Lauren Oliver
#7. At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
Sheryl Sandberg
#8. The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
Francis Bacon
#9. I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
Michael Chabon
#10. Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.
Jose Mourinho
#12. With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
Calvin Trillin
#13. Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
Barbara Johnson
#14. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person ...
Josh McDowell
#15. All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
Norman Wisdom
#16. The best way to transform ourselves is by transforming our consciousness and awareness.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
Sherry Turkle
