Top 43 Sybil Quotes
#1. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.
Fannie Flagg
#3. What would you rather?" yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. "Know everything or know nothing?"
"Know nothing," I yelled back. "Then you have the fun of finding everything out.
Martin Amis
#4. There was no point in arguing with Sybil, because even if you thought that you'd won, it would turn out, by some magic unavailable to husbands, that you had, in fact, been totally misinformed.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Silk stockings. With garters. Well, they were out. There were a lot of things he'd do for Sybil, but if garters figured anywhere in the relationship they weren't going to be on him.
Terry Pratchett
#6. And, incidentally, tomato ketchup is not a vegetable." Sybil added. "Not even the dried stuff around the top of the bottle.
Terry Pratchett
#7. He always says that,' muttered Vimes as the two men hurried down the stairs. 'He knows I don't like being married to a duchess.'
'I thought you and Lady Sybil-'
'Oh, being married to Sybil is fine, fine,' said Vimes hurriedly. 'It's just the duchess bit I don't like.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Sybil and Nancy leaned over to catch a glimpse of the sun sparkling on the muddy waters of the River Plate. The skyscrapers stood proudly in clumps and Sybil assumed that the patches of green were parks. In no time the plane was screeching to a halt and they had arrived in Buenos Aires.
Phyllis Goodwin
#9. Sarsaparilla boiled for one of Sybil's tonics, overpowering the aroma of the roasting meat. Cora
Colson Whitehead
#10. The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. "Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaaahhhh!"
Somewhere in the depths of the pine forest an identical sound reverberated.
"An echo!" exclaimed Frannie.
"No," smiled Helena. "Sybil Manigault. She's into nature.
Armistead Maupin
#11. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow
Terry Pratchett
#12. He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five.
Terry Pratchett
#13. And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street." "Sweeney Jones," said Vimes. "Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn't mean to. He was just very bad at shaving -
Terry Pratchett
#14. Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me
Karen Chance
#15. The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into custom. People never quite recover from my cravats, but they will never find the equal of my tailor. To be memorable is all, when it comes to dress.
Timothy Findley
#16. The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn't come into her own. So it's only in Series Two that she's become so headstrong. In general, I find it exciting to play strong, female roles because they're shocking.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#17. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall
#18. They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.
Kim White
#19. Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.
James Stockdale
#20. Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley
Sybil G. Brinton
#21. We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
Sybil Thorndike
#22. Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
Sybil Adelman
#23. All human beings have magic in them. The secret is to know how to use this magic ...
Sybil Leek
#24. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#25. Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more.
Sybil Stanton
#26. When a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.
Sybil Marshall
#27. I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
Sybil Thorndike
#28. Is Your Past Really Your Past At All?
Sybil Shae
#29. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)
Sybil MacBeth
#30. I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman.
Sybil Adelman
#31. I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.
Sybil Thorndike
#32. I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.
Sybil Thorndike
#33. The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.
Sybil Leek
#35. I want to see your dreams," he explained. "I want to share them with you, and have you share mine as well. I don't want them hidden in a book. I want them lived together, even - no, especially--when that's hard.
Sybil Shae
#36. It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.
Sybil Thorndike
#37. I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.
Sybil Claiborne
#38. For Love...Real Love...The Kind Of Love That Lasts Forever...
Sybil Shae
#39. Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#40. [When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!
Sybil Thorndike
#41. We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man
his mind and his psyche.
Sybil Leek
#42. As a prayer popper, I stay in touch with God. I send lots of spiritual postcards. Little bits and bytes of adoration, supplication, and information attached prayer darts speed in God's direction all day long.
Sybil MacBeth
#43. Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.
Sybil Marshall
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