His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

I’m going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour.” Finbar rolled his eyes. “And they’ll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy...

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel… When you have a great stamina, you can...

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates … The...

Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt.

If my ‘mind’ don’t mind, I don’t mind.

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

I have chiseled features. Look. Look how chiseled they are. And my teeth are at least as white as his. You seriously think he’s good-lookin’?””I do,” said Tanith.”Right,” Sanguine said and nodded. “I’m gonna kill...

I’m a natural salesman. I sold my soul to the devil. I’m so shrewd that I got pennies on the dollar for it. Ha! Wait, a buyer who gets pennies on the dollar is the...

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Oh,clever… what’s the use of that? Are they human beings?

Victoria is a clever satirist, … She understands the awfulness that’s at the heart of a lot of modern culture.

Today I am amused, and I haven’t seen anyone yet.

As it ‘appens, I am Arthur’s right-hand man,” said Suzy. “Or left-hand girl, I can’t remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least...

A stick won’t stick to a wall, so why is it called a stick? Likewise, why aren’t love and ghost the same word? Both are dead and invisible.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!

This is a very clever move, and probably more a public relations move than anything else.

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it’s the...

Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval...

as something good as man”.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

I can’t tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can’t tell you because it never happened. They all adored me.” “It was your humility, wasn’t it?

What the hell makes you smart?” I asked.”I wouldn’t go for coffee with you.””Listen – I wouldn’t ask you.””That,” she replied, “is what makes you stupid.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy...

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

His name is Arnold. But you’re not on a first name basis with him, and that’s not his first name. So that’s Mr. Arnold to you. Once you get to know him, he may let...

Certain people, people who are certain, are always wrong—and that itself is certainly wrong because it’s always always.

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don’t worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They’ll never get to be swans

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

The kitchen. The bathroom. The yin and yang of the household.

Skul-man!’ he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. ‘Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!’ Skulduggery nodded. ‘Just got back.

Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?

Love is a kind of warfare.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our own?””No, we’re going to find a way to let our...

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

If you’re so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the way I am. That’s what’s healthy, Mom. Not being focused on all this freaky weight-loss stuff.

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.