Top 19 Uncle Toby Quotes
#1. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
Laurence Sterne
#2. I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Laurence Sterne
#4. Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.
Not I, quoth my uncle.
- But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.
No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.
Laurence Sterne
#5. How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?
Lemony Snicket
#6. A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
Glenn Greenwald
#7. The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#8. I never turned children to war," Tool said.
"Only because you fought on the side of wealth,
Paolo Bacigalupi
#9. I don't even know what my voice is to this day.
Tom Stoppard
#10. I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
Pablo Picasso
#11. Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
Alex Campbell
#13. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
#17. It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
Blaise Pascal
#18. And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn't. That it was time to find a new life for myself.
Brenda Rothert
#19. If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
Denis Leary
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