Domiron > Domiron's Quotes

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

“He who aspires to dine with the vampire must bring his own meat.”
― Ernest Bramah, THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

“..they were yung and easily freudened..”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.”
― John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor

“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“Self knowledge is always bad news.”
― John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE.
MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Truth is stranger than fishin”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Don’t worry about him, the girl said. He’s rich. He has 3,859 Rolls Royces.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

“Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“The house only isn't enough, you see. It has to have
the setting. That's just as important. It's like a ruby or an emerald. A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere further. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until it has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it. I take the setting, you see, out of the landscape, where it exists only in its own right. It has no meaning until there is my house sitting proudly like a jewel within its grasp.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin

“To get at the cause for a thing, we must study the effect.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself

“I am wedded to you so closely, that I feel as if I were the same person. Our essences are one, our bodies and spirits being united, so, that I am drawn towards you as by magnetism, and wherever you are, there must my presence be with you.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“Going for blood today, are we, Violence?"
"My name is Violet."
"I think my version fits you better.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You turned oranges into a weapon, Violence?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I’ve always suspected that a sense of humour is a kind of parlour trick we civilized folk have taught ourselves as an insurance against disillusionment.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree: A Historical Novel of Suspense and Romance

“You can't win when you're fighting someone who doesn't know there is a fight.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree

“Now if the antient opinion, that men might live very comfortably on virtue only, be, as the modern wise men just above-mentioned pretend to have discovered, a notorious error; no less false is, I apprehend, that position of some writers of romance, that a man can live altogether on love; for however delicious repasts this may afford to some of our senses or appetites, it is most certain it can afford none to others. Those, therefore, who have placed too great a confidence in such writers, have experienced their error when it was too late; and have found that love was no more capable of allaying hunger, than a rose is capable of delighting the ear, or a violin of gratifying the smell.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

“So yo then man what's your story?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”
― John Hawkes

“Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.”
― John Hawkes

“The writer should always serve as his own angleworm—and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.”
― John Hawkes

“My God, Tom thought, plunge into a couple of soothing Goethe poems. Der Abschied or some such. A little German solidity, Goethian conviction of superiority and—maybe genius. That was what he needed.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Ripley Under Ground