Wackford Squeers Quotes

Se there was a matter of half a ream of brown paper stuck upon me, from first to last. As I laid all of a heap in our kitchen, plastered all over, you might have thought I was a large brown-paper parcel, chock full of nothing but groans. Did I groan loud, Wackford, or did I groan soft?' asked Mr Squeers, appealing to his son. ~ Charles Dickens

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; ' ... What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?'
'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.) ~ Charles Dickens

Mr Squeers himself acquired greater sternness and inflexibility from certain warm potations in which he was wont to indulge after his early dinner. ~ Charles Dickens

she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers. ~ Charles Dickens

A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all? ~ Charles Dickens

So remarkably deaf was my grandfather Squeers That he had to wear lightning-rods over his ears To even hear thunder, and oftentimes then He was forced to request it to thunder again. ~ Bill Nye

What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain. ~ Charles Dickens

I agree with Dr. Makris. Does that mean I would let someone blow up my dead foot to help save the feet of NATO land mine clearers? It does. And would I let someone shoot my dead face with a nonlethal projectile to help prevent accidental fatalities? I suppose I would. What wouldn't I let someone do to my remains? I can think of only one experiment I know of that, were I a cadaver, I wouldn't want anything to do with. This particular experiment wasn't done in the name of science or education or safer cars or better-protected soldiers. It was done in the name of religion. ~ Mary Roach

I glared so hard I feared my face would get stuck that way. "If you ever try anything like that again, I will stab you in the foot, Thomas Cresswell."

"Ah. There's something about you saying my name that sounds like a blessed curse," he said. "If you can work up a good hand gesture to go along with it, that'd be exceptional. ~ Kerri Maniscalco

Hope is the dance of the spirit.
Mind is the stage and imagination is the music. ~ Debasish Mridha

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ~ John Acton

When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction. ~ Paul Broks

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. ~ Robert Browning

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing. ~ Darrell Royal

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world. ~ Ivan Lendl