Pennyworth Quotes & Sayings

Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement. — Terry Pratchett

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup? — Lewis Carroll

You're as plain as the nose on your face," said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody. — Neil Gaiman

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting — Jude Morgan

you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work." I — Arthur Conan Doyle

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence. — Benjamin Franklin

Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God. — James MacDonald

See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise. — Victor Hugo

You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing. — Lewis Carroll

All creative people want to do the unexpected. — Hedy Lamarr

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale. — Joseph Livesey

Batman: What do you think Alfred?
Alfred: I think you're a bad driver.
Batman: I've got Lucius looking into another car-
Alfred: Well you're going to need one if you actually want to catch these blokes. Tea's on the table behind you. — Geoff Johns

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I want to thank you, first, Person Who Bought This Book. Because of you, I have a job I love. Because of you, the people in my head get to live outside of it. When I meet you, you talk about my characters as if they are old friends (or enemies) we have in common; I cannot explain how miraculous this feels. If you are one of those people who have put my books into the hands of other readers - either professionally as a god-called lunatic who loves books so much you hand-sell them or as a reader who picked one for book club or gave it to your best friend for a birthday - well. This book exists because of you. I hope you are happy about this. I am - happy and grateful and a little bit in love with you. — Joshilyn Jackson

Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth — Greg Cox

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming. — Joel Osteen

There was something missing
In my foundation
Why blame the poor walls? — Javed Akhtar

Alfred: Are you alright?
Batman: I'm going to need a better car. Police are here. They'll pick up the others.
Alfred: And they'll probably be back on the streets by sunrise thanks to Harvey Dent. I know you don't want to hear it, but if you want to make Gotham a safer place we need to rethink how we're going to do that. You should come home now. Dinner's gonna get cold.
Batman: Don't tell me it's cottage pie again.
Alfred:...I'll order a pizza. — Geoff Johns

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Isidore Of Seville

I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure. — E. M. Forster

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. — William Shenstone

Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer. — Francis Quarles