Harmless Quotes
210 quotes by 190 authors
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I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
— Christopher Walken
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather…
— A. N. Wilson
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If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
— Philip K. Dick
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,…
— Sarah Vowell
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you,…
— Tennessee Williams
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is…
— Anne Bronte
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As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies...…
— Terry Pratchett
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I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
— James St. James
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We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
— Margaret Atwood
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
— William Faulkner
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
— William Golding
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I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And…
— Raymond Carver
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
— Charles Dickens
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Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief…
— Dan Simmons
Who Wrote These Harmless Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 210 Harmless Quotes, led by these top contributors: