Llewelyn Quotes & Sayings

I am only sorry that we were not allowed to shake the judge's hand, and then dance on the desks. — Richard Llewelyn

I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her.
Your mother's dead Llewelyn.
Well I'll tell her myself then. — Cormac McCarthy

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging. — Joseph Sobran

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion. — Llewelyn Powys

It's all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses. — Helen M. Ryan

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long. — Alex Chiu

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. — Desmond Llewelyn

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

While you live, whatever your state while on earth, act the generous and manly part; and never, never, either manually or with the lash of satire, war with the weak — T.J. Llewelyn Prichard

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. — Llewelyn Powys

He [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying. — Philip Larkin

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work. — Desmond Llewelyn

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense. — Llewelyn Powys

Cass Mastern lived for a few years and in that time he learned that the world is all of one piece. He learned that the world is like an enormous spider web and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point, the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but spring out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then inject the black, numbing poison under your hide. It does not matter whether or not you meant to brush the web of things. You happy foot or you gay wing may have brushed it ever so lightly, but what happens always happens and there is the spider, bearded black and with his great faceted eyes glittering like mirrors in the sun, or like God's eye, and the fangs dripping. — Robert Penn Warren

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun. — Llewelyn Powys

But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright to eat God why is it horrible to eat Jim Whittle?'
'Because,' said Dymphna reasonably, ' if you eat God there's always plenty left. You can't eat God up because God just goes on and on and on and God can't ever be finished ... — Anthony Burgess

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. — Llewelyn Powys

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity. — Desmond Llewelyn

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. — Louise Lester

There are no miracles because all is a miracle. There is no magic because all is magic." -Llewelyn Powys — Rose Mary Boehm

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living? — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen