Fortnight Quotes
Fortnight Quote of the day
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.
I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.
When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.
