Funny Quotes

"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is -- the enormous prosperity of Fools." ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins "I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety." ~ The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Of all the great battles in which I had the honour of drawing my sword for the Emperor and for France there was not one which was lost. At Waterloo, although, in a sense, I was present, I was unable to fight, and the enemy was victorious. It is not for me to say that there is a connection between these two things. You know me too well, my friends, to imagine that I would make such a claim. But it gives matter for thought, and some have drawn flattering conclusions from it. ~ The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!" ~ The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. ~ Reginald by Saki "The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them." ~ Reginald by Saki When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy He woke at half-past two, an hour which long experience had taught him brings panic intensity to all awkward thoughts. Experience had also taught him that a further waking at the proper hour of eight showed the folly of such panic. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy