Elves Quote by Horton Deakins

“You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun

“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else…

— V.S. Carnes

“They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something odd about…

— Patricia Briggs

“What I wud do if I was Buller, an' I thank Hivin I'm not, wud be move me ar-rmy in half-an-hour over th' high…

— Finley Peter Dunne

“What is that old children’s rhyme, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’? Anyone who says that doesn’t…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil…

— James Joyce

“I carry my adornments on my soul. I do not dress up like a popinjay; But inwardly, I keep my daintiness. I do not…

— Edmond Rostand

“I went to her, and she looked up at me as though fearing something more to hurt her, I saw her eyes, that were…

— Richard Llewellyn

“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he…

— Bram Stoker

“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“And friends abroad must bear in mind Friends at home they leave behind. Oh, I shall be stiff and cold When I forget you,…

— A.E. Housman