Funny Quotes

"I like people to have a little nonsense about them." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. " ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul." ~ The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs "I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first." ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." ~ The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it a la mode and stylishly. ~ The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope "My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde