Lord Lansdale Quotes & Sayings

Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right. — Thomas Jefferson

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie. — Pamela Anderson

I will not be triumphed over. — Cleopatra

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness. — Chanakya

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. — J.G. Holland

In the Old City there were very few ways for women to stay alive, and all of them involved a man. — Christina Henry

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord
and shotgun do your stuff — Joe R. Lansdale

The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to select objects, and to cull from the mass of mankind, those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employed; as a diamond, though it cannot be made, may be polished by art, and placed in such a situation, as to display that luster which before was buried among common stones. — Samuel Johnson

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I — Lisa Wingate

Who ever said keeping the law of the Lord is peaceable work? The devil brings a sword and I bring a sword back to him. It is the will of the Lord and I am his servant. — Joe R. Lansdale

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked
was Paul McCartney. — Freedy Johnston