“You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I don't think I've ever seen you without braids. I thought your hair just grew that way.” — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.” — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
“Well, look who's on my front porch," he said, speaking Empire with this odd hissing accent. "A murderer and a cross-dressing pirate."… — Cassandra Rose Clarke Copy Share Image
I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“He lies down next to me. He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/' 'Well, don't die,' I… — Gwendoline Riley Copy Share Image
“The one think i don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
“There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Divorce is what husband and wife do together when they no longer wish to do anything together.” — John Spencer Yantiss Copy Share Image
“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I'm feeling nervous. — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
“Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying,… — Kate Angell Copy Share Image
