Author of quotes: Alan Bradley. Page 4

Pack your problems in an old bag and smile, smile, smile.

- Wow! he said, glancing round at the garden, like a Princess awakening from a deep sleep. I think we have a beautiful day!

If you're insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to your high standards, go forth and suck my galoshes.

Everyone always gets confused before you fall into place.

But all too soon we grew up. Too soon to make not only the pleasures of the adult world, but also its complexity.

I couldn't understand, I just knew that some deep-seated chemical substance inside one of us really needed his long-lost complement - or antidote? - inside another.

In my experience, stupid jokes in the mouth of one who is not so stupid, are often nothing more than camouflage for something far, far worse.

I don't smoke, - I gasped.
"Why not?" she wanted to know. - Too young or too wise?
I was wondering if I did not begin next week - haltingly, I replied. - She just has not yet arrived.

No need to sulk. There's quite offended, no need to join them.

- Love is not a wide river that flows and flows forever yourself, and if you believe it, you stupid stupid. It can stem dam, and then nothing will remain except the trickle...

The best thing to do when tears come to the eyes without special reasons, is to change the subject.

There is nothing more hateful liar than to find that he was lying to another liar.

... there is no better way to disguise a lie than to wrap it in an emotional flow of truth.

The best people, they are, Yes. They do not stick to you like flypaper.