Lad Quotes - Page 4

• Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

  Ellis Peters

  Home, Circles, Half

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

  Charlie Cox

  Country, America, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream.
  "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling off a cliff.
  "Arr" is, I think, the noise you're looking for. It's the noise pirates make when they don't have anything better to do. "Arr, Jim Lad" = Pirate noise. "Aargh, Jim Lad" = sound of pirate falling off a cliff.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Thinking, Pirate

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• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Eye, Thinking

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• He leaned close, rubbing his bearded cheek against my ear. 'And how about a sweet kiss, now, for the brave lads of the clan MacKenzie? Tulach Ard!' Erin go bragh,' I said rudely, and pushed with all my strength.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sweet, Kissing, Brave

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.223, Delacorte Press

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, War, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources" by Rev. James Wood, (p. 567), 1899.

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• What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey.” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Phones, Names, Voice

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• We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Sin

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Mad, Cupid

  "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

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• He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?" "No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special." "If they're not special, what would the point be?

  Nora Roberts

  Husband, Heart, Men

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts's The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy”, p.58, Penguin

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• We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time." "Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad." Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror. "Gosh," he said.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Dragons, Expression

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• I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Men, Vision

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “King's Blood Four”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

  William Butler Yeats

  Swimming, Mermaid, Body

  William Butler Yeats, “A Man Young And Old”

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• She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.

  Emma Bull

  Distance, Heart, Artist

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• Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them. "Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?" This caused a cheer. "Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, Said, Okay

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

  Sean Harris

  Football, Actors, Way

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• You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Dream, Reality, Way

  Peter F. Hamilton (2008). “The Reality Dysfunction”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Flower, Heart

  Dorothy Parker, “The Lady's Reward”

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Wind, Hypocrisy

  Emily Bronte (2015). “Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature”, p.145, 谷月社

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• Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Death, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258

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• Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Kids, Happy Kid

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

  Jules Verne

  Fall, Errors, Built

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.177, Jules Verne

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• Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

  Nancy Farmer

  People, Drug, Strange

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