Dave Franklin Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to fuck a critic. — Dave Franklin

Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment. — Dave Franklin

No one liked to get too upset in WA's capital, a genuine hindrance to Perth forging its own identity. Less than two hundred years old, its unremarkable history and unceasing niceness had combined to apparently stupify its populace. Perth was at least two hours behind the Eastern states but everyone knew it was really dragging behind by years. — Dave Franklin

Perhaps you don't have to do anything wrong for someone to reject you. — Dave Franklin

Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to be chased, clueless with a different mindset and a bit of effort they could be the predators. — Dave Franklin

Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach. — Dave Franklin

Fe fi fo fum, I'll put you on your bum! — Dave Franklin

Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing? — Dave Franklin

When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS. — Dave Franklin

Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things. — Dave Franklin

Admit it: you live in a straitjacket called society that's chillingly adroit at forcing you to behave. You do what's expected, right? You rarely, if ever, cross that line. You play your part because you're a liar and an actor just like all those people around you are liars and actors. That's why alcohol is such a revealing drug: it removes the straitjacket. Drunks don't act. No one controls them. Suddenly they're showing who they are, what's really inside. Why do you think they make us feel so uncomfortable as we stare at them with our Oscar-worthy poise? — Dave Franklin

God, he loved being a bloke. He loved it so much. He wouldn't be a woman for all the money in the world. — Dave Franklin

Are you ready to try to tame the Wrath? — Dave Franklin

Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry. — Dave Franklin

I seem to feel ashamed of going out and getting merry - I find it oddly humiliating - but I'm quite happy to sit here like some dipsomaniac and become maudlin. For me, that is cool behaviour. Once you realise you're going to be on your own for the next few decades, it seems as pleasurable a way as any to pass the years. — Dave Franklin

Funny how you never forget the girls from school, huh? — Dave Franklin

When it comes to men, women will insist that a lunge in their direction is not always welcome, and yet they cannot forgive a man who does not even attempt a sexual pursuit. Strange creatures, aren't they? — Dave Franklin

I'd rather just slip on my halo of flies and stay here, if you don't mind. — Dave Franklin