"Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear."
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Diana Wynne Jones
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones has 143 quotes on this site.
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean,…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I…
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More Dear Quotes
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
— Honore de Balzac
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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