Vicarage Quotes

#1. The gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Ruth Rendell

#3. In the December rain, the vicarage was especially damp and soggy, with an aura of boiled eggs and old books - a perfect setting for our encounter: dark, brooding, and simply reeking of secrets and tales told in an earlier time. Cynthia,

Alan Bradley

#4. without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

Marion Chesney

#5. In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened, mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality.

Barbara Pym

#6. My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

Cynthia Payne

#7. You must come to the Vicarage, then, next week, said the vicar.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Val McDermid

#9. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Tom Hollander

#10. I like people, kind of. I even like boys, mostly. But I was beginning to feel like that stewardess who smiles at you when you get off the plane. Behind the smile you know she really wishes she could trip someone.

Gwen Hayes

#11. Those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge.

Steven Erikson

#12. ...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Aleister Crowley

#13. Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

Mick Jagger

#14. Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Spike Jonze

#15. We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...

Julia Cameron

#16. A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

Jim Stovall

#17. There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Daniel Clowes