"Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but……" — Jasper Fforde
"Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail."
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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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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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More Blackmail Quotes
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one of 71 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
— George W. Bush
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the…
— George W. Bush
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The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail…
— Dan B. Allender
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Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love…
— Michael Jackson
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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
— Kim Jong-un
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You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do…
— Robert Young
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In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
— Alberto Fujimori
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