She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Doors are for people with no imagination.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.