Some Quotes

Ok, I’m a bit of a sucker for quotes. I will quote friends, family, TV Programmes, films, famous people… Everyone! Here’s a collection of my favourite quotes:

“People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it’ s usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.”
– Terry Pratchett

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
– Johnathan Swift

“Genius is born, not paid.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“I’ve a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
– Groucho Marx

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
– Albert Einstein

“‘God save our gracious Queen’… Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?”
– Bill Bailey

“I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say “work”, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars.”
– Bill Bailey

“It’s the augmented fourth or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life”
– Bill Bailey

“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

“…I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, ghosts, broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?”
– Terry Pratchett in response to J.K. Rowling’s admission that she did not think Harry Potter was fantasy as she was writing it