Grinch Roast Beast Quotes & Sayings

When you are discovered by a householder - with revolver - in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted. — P.G. Wodehouse

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. — Henry James

IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,
and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,
the man should get a go-between to approach her. — Mallanaga Vatsyayana

I never can love you deep enough or long enough to satisfy me. — Debasish Mridha

Lord takes care of babes, fools, and the United States. — Otto Von Bismarck

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. — Margaret Bottome

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. — Pierre Bourdieu

one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories - hypotheses, to explain the world. — Sherman Alexie

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut. — Meghan O'Rourke

Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave now, or join us at our ... feast."
Are you having rare Who-roast-beast?" I asked.
What are you talking about?"
It's from Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You know the part, 'And they'd Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! They would feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast-beast.'"
You are crazy."
So I've been told. — Laurell K. Hamilton

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders. — Eli Broad

The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral? — Rick Riordan

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. — Elisabeth Moss

He took the Who's feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash. — Dr. Seuss

And he, he himself ... the Grinch ... carved the roast-beast! — Dr. Seuss

Every writer owes something to Holmes.
T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929 — T. S. Eliot