Caddish Quotes & Sayings

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina ... She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way.
When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out. — Auberon Waugh

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial. — David Byrne

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. — Jonathan Dimbleby

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. — Samuel Johnson

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat. — Manolo Blahnik

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He was still looking steadily at her. His eyes were clear, cool and hard, but something in the depths of them flickered and shifted. She thought: 'He'd take any advantage he could
fair or unfair. Caddish he is.' Then as she stared back at him she felt a great longing to put her head on his knees and shut her eyes. To stop thinking. Stop the little wheels in her head that worked incessantly. To give in and have a little peace. The unutterably sweet peace of giving in. — Jean Rhys

The New Year, the New Year. Everywhere the New Year! The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap, like some drowned mariner's aboardship. Its patterns were Last Year's, and going at a sacrifice, before its breath was gone. Its treasures were mere dirt, beside the riches of its unborn successor! — Charles Dickens

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey

Your only shame is to have shame. — Amy Tan

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. — Andy Warhol

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. — Edward Bellamy

People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story. — Jennifer Brown

What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living. — Samantha Shannon

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. — Samantha Morton

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies. — J.P. Donleavy

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job. — Janet Jackson