"A good butler should save his employer's life……" — Jasper Fforde
"A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day."
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
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Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before…
— Charles Dickens
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My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
— Adam Petty
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Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
— Norma Shearer
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In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he…
— Robert Aickman
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Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his…
— Jefferson Davis
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I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I…
— Gabe Newell
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Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
— Winston Churchill
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Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
— Sarah Zettel
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Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I…
— Clark Gable
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I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into…
— Donald Driver
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Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you.…
— Clark Gable
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During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm…
— Tony Horwitz
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