Jolly Quotes - Page 5

• Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, House, Solitude

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• I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Love Life, People, Cheerful

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• There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

  Prince Charles

  People, Disaster

  "Prince Charles shocked by 'tragedy' of flood failures on Somerset visit" by Steven Morris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Humorous, Men

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• David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who`s really saying Donald Trump, you`re out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.

  Rachel Maddow

  Republican, Forget, Trump

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• Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
  Under the shade of a coolibar tree,
  And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil,
  You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

  Banjo Paterson

  Song, Tree, Shade

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• I was certainly seriously emotionally affected [ when Louise Hillary and Belinda Hillary died], but we were building the hospital at the time and I decided that the only thing to do was to carry on and complete the hospital - and it was a jolly good hospital too, I might say. So I really did it by working and working on the things that Louise and I had been working on.

  Edmund Hillary

  Might, Building, Things To Do

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

  David Hare

  Gun, Car, Faces

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• The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, People, Black

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• There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

  John Betjeman

  Simple, Hymns, Two

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Summer, Blessed

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

  Phil Ochs

  Evil

  Song: I Like Hitler

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• In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

  Dick Cavett

  Ghost, Miserable, Forlorn

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

  John Milton

  Heart, May, Woods

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.449

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• As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

  Douglas Adams

  Cheerful, Hardship, Dirt

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• This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Class, Way

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

  Andrew Marr

  Boys, Games, Littles

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• My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Father, Happy Life, Thinking

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Positive, Attitude, Reflection

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sacrifice, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Eggs, Ordinary

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eggs, Frightened, Revolt

  News summaries, December 31, 1963.

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• I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

  Gaston Leroux

  Mean, Keys, Giving

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• Jolly boating weather,
  And a hay harvest breeze,
  Blade on the feather,
  Shade off the trees.

  William Johnson Cory

  Weather, Tree, Hay

  'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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• It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Fun, Attitude

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