Mr Joe Gargery Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to recover the lost opportunity. — Publilius Syrus

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. — Lawrence Fagg

He was talking very excitedly to me," said the Vicar, "about some apparatus for warming a church in Worthing and about the Apostolic Claims of the Church of Abyssinia. I confess I could not follow him clearly. He seems deeply interested in Church matters. Are you quite sure he is right in the head? I have noticed again and again since I have been in the Church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity. — Evelyn Waugh

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two. — Jerome K. Jerome

I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it. — Tom Weston-Jones

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. — Orson Welles

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different? — George Orwell

Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As — Charles Dickens

She must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand. — Charles Dickens

We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical. — Kim Harrison

There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is Don't do what you will, do what I say. — Terry Pratchett