Moomintrolls Quotes & Sayings

Of course, Moomintrolls don't wear clothes, except sometimes in bed. — Tove Jansson

How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat. — Fulton J. Sheen

Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls. — Tove Jansson

An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it - potentially - a tragic situation.

You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it. — Jacques Yonnet

The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness. — Edith Hahn Beer

No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow