A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity hum...
Triton: I'm really looking forward to this performance, Sebastian. Sebastian: Your Majesty. This will be the finest concert I have ever conducted. Your daughters, they will be spectacular! Triton: Yes, and especially my little Ariel. Sebastian: Yes, ...
Robin Hood: [sees Maid Marian] There she is, Little John. Isn't she beautiful? Little John: Cool it, loverboy! You're heart's running away with your head! Robin Hood: Ah, stop worrying. This disguise will fool my own mother. Little John: Yeah, but yo...
Mulligan: What happened here? Little Bonaparte: [referring to Spats and his thugs] There was something in that cake that didn't agree with them. Mulligan: My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves this room until I get the recipe. Little Bonaparte: Y...
Young Boy with Coffee: Excuse me, I happened to be passing, and I thought you might like some coffee. Little Girl: Oh, that's very nice of you, thank you. [takes coffee] Little Girl: Oh, won't you sit down? Young Boy with Coffee: Cream? Little Girl: ...
[Rachel grabs a gun to protect herself and a little boy from escaped asylum inmates] Little Boy: Batman will save us. He'll come. He'll come. Rachel Dawes: [raises gun and shields the boy's face] Don't peek. [Batman drops from above, grabs them and l...
What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince. “You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me, like that, in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will ...
Little thieves have iron chains; big thieves have gold ones.
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Too much is never good; too little is never enough.
What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.
Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.
Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then.
Of what you see, believe very little, of what you are told, nothing.
Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When pe...
Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no...
Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief...
When one is sitting in his bedroom and, happening to glance out the window, sees his little brother walking slowly down the driveway, he immediately jumps up, knocks over a stack of magazines piled up beside him, and runs through the doorway and down...
Frank T.J. Mackey: [Frank is speaking to followers at his seminar] Men are shit. What? Men... are... *shit*. What, isn't that what they say? Because we do bad things, don't we? We do horrible, heineous, *heinous*, terrible things. Things that no woma...
A little girl learns about men through her Father." Sam Cameron
