Peter Quotes

A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw)
Peter was dull he was at first Dull,oh so dull, so very dull Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed Dull,beyond all conception, dull. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. View quote
Mike Myers
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. View quote
Terry Southern
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. View quote
Anne Stevenson
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. View quote
Fiona Shaw
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. View quote
Michael Stipe
Lord Peter Wimsey: I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity. View quote
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. (Beatrix Potter)
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater. View quote
Mary Martin
Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever. View quote
Denis Leary
Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. View quote
Dudley Moore
To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment. View quote
Alice Cooper
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. View quote
Isaac Asimov
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; - a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought! (Albert Pike)
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected. View quote
William Wordsworth