Peter Quotes - page 4

Lord Peter Wimsey: Wait a second... I'm not sure that you haven't said something useful and important. Lady Mary Wimsey: Everything I say is useful and important. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Lord Peter Wimsey: She has a sense of humor... and brains... life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed... and that would be jolly too. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: He dogs my footsteps with the incompetent zeal of fifty Watsons. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: Wherever trouble turns up, there am I at the bottom of it. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does - if it really is a principle - is to kill somebody. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: It's my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn't run it for all it's worth. However, it won't do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances) View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it – that is at the bottom of the ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey: I'm told I make love rather nicely. Though I am at a bit of a disadvantage at the moment. One can't be too convincing at the other end of the table with a bloke looking in the window. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century. Stalin has made Russia great again! (Whittaker Chambers)
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. View quote
Michael Bond
If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ? View quote
Graham Greene
Peter Newman: Go fuck yourself. Thank you. Good night. View quote
Brian Mulroney
Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in? Edward Heath: Of course, yes. View quote
Edward Heath
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. View quote
Tracey Ullman
By robbing Peter he paid Paul, ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. View quote
François Rabelais
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples. View quote
Alfred Noyes
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' View quote
Phil Collins
Peter [Sellers] was always a mixed-up guy, a childish fellow. But if you're fond of children, you're also fond of childish men. He was always very helpful to me. After he was famous, and when I was still in trouble with the US embassy, he wrote a letter in support of me which was magnificent. But it is true that he was very cruel to his children. He was so hurt by the way children treat you when you're their father. I have been hurt by my children. But he was not in possession of a proper brain when it came to these things. View quote
Herbert Lom
Had they ever thought of the parallel in the origins of Mohammedanism and Bolshevism-both springing out of Christianity, one proclaiming brotherhood and the other communism, but both proclaiming death and damnation upon all unbelievers. Within a century of the death of the prophet the Mohammedans had spread from Arabia to the Pyrenees by means of the sword and were stopped by Charles Martel at Tours. Russia throws up few great men but imagine what might happen if a Bolsehvik Peter the Great appeared on the scene. (Stanley Baldwin)
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
As I went down to my car, [Peter Randall] said, "If you don't want to get involved I'll understand" I looked back at him. "You know damn well I'd have no choice." "I didn't," he said. "But I was hoping." View quote
Michael Crichton
That beast of the Apocalypse, to whom is given a mouth speaking blasphemies, and to make war with the saints, is sitting on the throne of Peter, like a lion ready for his prey. View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux
What decent person would want to spend a life picking and cavilling? Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"... you know'. View quote
Stephen Fry