Belle Quote by Terry Pratchett

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have…

— Rufus Wainwright

“If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the…

— Lisa Samson

“Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter…

— Sophie Avett

“Mrs. Potts beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter…

— Sophie Avett

“...who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love...”

— John Geddes

It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor.…

— MaryJanice Davidson

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

— Billy Wilder

“I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart, beauty fades, but cooking…

— Cassandra Clare

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

— Neil Young

Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole…

— Tana French

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

— Helen Oyeyemi