Codfish Quotes & Sayings

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. — Agatha Christie

Likewise, it's never just to cause trouble or be intentionally divisive. It's just that fun needs to be recovered to Christendom. — John Crowder

I don't care that I'm taking a chance. I don't care that I may get my heart broken. If I don't at least give this a chance, I'll never be able to live with myself. I love this. I love this because it's funny. I love this because it's silly. I love him, I love him, I love him! And just like that...my heart goes boom. — Karyn Bosnak

Codfish aristocracy' is what they call us. Men who've made a fortune in business, but are common-born."
"Why codfish?"
"It used to refer to the rich merchants who settled the American colonies and made their money in the cod trade. Now it means any successful businessman."
"Nouveau riche is another term," Helen added. "It's never used as a compliment, of course. But it should be. Being self-made is something to be admired." As she felt his soundless chuckle, she insisted, "It is."
Rhys turned his head to kiss her. "You've no need to flatter my vanity."
"I'm not flattering you. I think you're remarkable. — Lisa Kleypas

Close your mouth Lily, you look like a codfish."
"I can't help it. This place looks like something out of medieval times. I'm surprised there aren't rushes on the floor or half-dressed serving wenches carrying trenchers of food."
"Read Harlequin much?"
"Shut up. There's nothing wrong with romance novels. You could learn something from them you know."
Sean's mouth curved into a slow, seductive grin. He let his fingers drift casually along the side of her arm, deliberately grazing the edge of her breast. "Could I now? — Marianne Morea

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life. — Edward Everett Hale

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council. — Bernard Kouchner

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?' — Summer Sanders

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with. — Frederick Pollock

He glanced nervously over his shoulder with a remarkable pair of codfish eyes.

'Like a 'orrid movie I saw once in Canarsie. Bunch o' lunks set off on a cruise to nowhere, just like this, and wot do you suppose they all was?'

'What?'

'Dead.'

'How?'

'Dead as mutton, only they didn't know it. — Rufus King

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise! — Nikhil Sharda

Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish. — L.M. Montgomery

The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish — Elizabeth Peters

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days. — Francis Parkman

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

You haggle like a crone with a codfish. — George R R Martin

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"
At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I found
I'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope they
corrected it all right.
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Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene - which
was real enough, I'd recently been there - but the old man and the conversation, etc.,
were all in a later dream — Elizabeth Bishop

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it. — Edvard Grieg

Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life. — Luke Evans

Drove Voldemort out . . . though Dumbledore, of course, — J.K. Rowling

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce. — Ogden Nash

Love - love was a balm as much as it was a poison. — Sarah J. Maas

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. — P.G. Wodehouse

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. — Jo Brand