Ariadne Oliver Quotes

After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily. ~ Agatha Christie

Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard."
"LIVER. Good one."
"Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?"
"Life Invasion. Like it."
"Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport."
"Doesn't that spell OLIVER? ~ Shannon Hale

The first time you share tea with a Balti (Baltistan people), you are a stranger. The second time you share a cup of tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family". ~ David Oliver Relin

He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey. ~ Lauren Oliver

Course I hardly knew him - saw him sometimes in the break room, once or twice in the shitter, that's ~ Lauren Oliver

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. ~ Oliver Burkeman

He would be gone soon, and with all that had happened in Blackpool Cove, I could not afford to send a piece of my heart with him. ~ Tess Oliver

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome.
It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. ~ Lauren Oliver

She thought, just for a second, that they were going to bare fangs at each other . . . and then Myrnin smiled. "I suppose I should say thank you."
"It would be customary," Oliver agreed.
Myrnin turned to Claire. "Thank you."
Somehow, she guessed that wasn't what Oliver had expected; she certainly hadn't. It was the kind of snub that got most people hurt in Morganville, but then again, she guessed Myrnin wasn't most people, even to Oliver.
Oliver didn't react. If there was a small red glow in the depths of his eyes, it could have been a reflection from the lights. ~ Rachel Caine

Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity. ~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. ~ Oliver Herring

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness ... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream. ~ Lauren Oliver

A new untruth is better than an old truth. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I'm sure I look like a disaster, red-faced and wild-eyed and close to hysterical - I ~ Lauren Oliver

Do I still 'ave an eye?" I laughed. "Still there." He straightened with a sigh. "Too bad. I hear girls take a liking to a man with an eye patch." "Yes, when the eye was lost in some wildly romantic fashion like a sword fight or pistol duel. Not from smacking it on the eyepiece of a microscope. And you hardly need any more help with the ladies. ~ Tess Oliver

God bless my soul! No apple pie. ~ Robert Oliver

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone. ~ Mary Oliver

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. ~ John Oliver

The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth. ~ Oliver DeMille

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life. ~ Lauren Oliver

Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...'Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon ~ Oliver Rixon

While the senate goes on spring break during a deadly pandemic, they're telling us peasants to go back to work, because the billionaires need more billions. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you know."
I'm so surprised by the question it takes me a second to answer. "Mr. Daimler is not a perv."
"Trust me, he is."
"Jealous?"
"Hardly."
"I don't flirt with him, anyway."
Kent rolls his eyes. "Sure."
I shrug my shoulders. "Why so interested?"
Kent goes red and drops his eyes to the floor. "No reason," he mumbles. ~ Lauren Oliver

And rape women as a way of getting out of paying them, with the UN saying they documented 1,300 rapes in Unity State alone over the course of six months. (Antiwar.com) ~ Oliver Markus

Finally his voice came through. 'Elio,' he said. I could hear my parents and the voices of children in the background. No one could say my name that way. 'Elio,' I repeated, to say it was I speaking but also to spark our old game and show I'd forgotten nothing. 'It's Oliver,' he said. He had forgotten. ~ Andre Aciman

Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman. ~ Oliver Bierhoff

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him. ~ Lauren Oliver

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies. ~ Oliver Ellsworth

Writers are storytellers. So are readers. ~ Oliver North

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you. ~ Oliver Sykes