Rec. #881: Quote from a Fictional Character #105

"I see everyone's point of view, which is very confusing. Seeing everyone's point of view is like mixing your drinks."

--- Annie, Doctors of Philosophy,

Muriel Spark, 1962

(See List #58)

Rec. #874: Quote from a Fictional Character #104

"Burglary or pick-pocketing, that needs an apprenticeship. Not so murder -- we're all of us up to that."

--- Mr. Inspector, Our Mutual Friend,

Charles Dickens, 1864

(Rec. #88)

(See also QfFC #21 and List #13)

Rec. #835: Quote from a Fictional Character #103

"Loving someone means muting their flaws for two to five years."

--- Andrés,

Los Espookys, 2019

Rec. #679: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #9

[Originally posted November 4, 2013.]

"I have your knife, Mr. Roat."

--- Susy Hendrix,

Wait Until Dark, 1967

(Rec. #26)

Rec. #678: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #26

[Originally posted March 31, 2014.]

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

--- Alexander Bullock,

 My Man Godfrey, 1936

(See also List #42: In Praise of the American Screwball Comedy)

Rec. #672: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #32

[Originally posted May 12, 2014.]

"In 10 days, I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome."

--- Steve Zissou,

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004

Rec. #671: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #93

[Originally posted November 12, 2016.]

"That's what's so tough --- just having to put up with it. It's a bloody awful shame, I know. But you'll feel a bit better by and by, I promise. Yes, you really will. There'll be tea, and sand castles, and your birthday, and Christmas. It's just as bad as can be now, I know; that's why things have got to get a bit better."

--- Lucy Culpepper,

The Embroidered Sunset, Joan Aiken, 1970

Rec. #430: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #39

[Felt highly relevant again.]

[QfFC #39 was originally posted July 14, 2014]

"I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted."

--- Camilla Haven,

My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart, 1959
(Rec. #387)

Also by Mary Stewart: The Ivy Tree (Rec. #201)

Rec. #660: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #21

[Originally posted February 24, 2014.]

"So ... wishing you well in the way you go, we now conclude with the observation that perhaps you'll go it."

--- Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin,

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 1865

(Rec. #88)

Rec. #659: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #25

"That is rather dangerously nice of you."

--- Inspector Roderick Alleyn,

Artists in Crime, Ngaio Marsh, 1938

(see also List #27)

Rec. #653: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #36

[Originally posted June 23, 2014.]

"I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, but you're not so swell either."

--- Amy Archer,

The Hudsucker Proxy, 1994

(Rec. #106)

Rec. #652: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #51

[Originally posted October 20, 2014.]

"Jane wondered whether a woman would do it better, and came to the conclusion that she would probably do it far more quickly and efficiently, but would also wreck herself in the process, and this Mr. Pattern was quite obviously, and perhaps rightly, determined not to do."

--- Jane Gresham,

Miss Bunting, Angela Thirkell, 1945

Also:

Cheerfulness Breaks In (Rec. #240)

Summer Half (Rec. #40)

Quote from a Fictional Character #12

Quote from a Fictional Character #31

Quote from a Fictional Character #43

Rec. #647: Quote from a Fictional Character #102

"At last, after everything that's happened, it looks as if a future of some kind for the BBC is finally underway, and perhaps, for the moment, that's all that matters. Perhaps it's enough that the night is still young."

--- Narrator (David Tennant),

from the final scene of season/series 3 of W1A, 2017

(Rec. #601)

[Also, from slightly earlier in the episode: "Can I just say, guys, is it just me or have we basically just saved the BBC?" --- David Wilke (guy on the far right in the image above)]

Rec. #646: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #96

[Originally posted November 24, 2014.]

"Your sister's not a cold-blooded murderer. She's never been a planner."

--- Karen Tyler,
Wonderfalls, 2004
(Rec. #2)

Also:

List #8: Smart, Non-Blockbuster Crowd Pleasers

List #24: A List of Lists So Far

List #29: So You Love the Cast of Hannibal, but Wish Watching the Show Itself Weren't So Psychologically Damaging 

Quote from a Fictional Character #14

Rec. #640: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #60

[Originally posted February 17, 2015.]

"The people you work with are people you were just thrown together with. I mean, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family. But probably all you have in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day."

--- Tim Canterbury,

The Office [UK], 2001

(List #9)

(List #32)

Rec. #636: Quote from a Fictional Character #101

"All undergraduates are the same. They wear extraordinary clothing and try to unsettle people."

--- Lord Clarence Emsworth,

Blandings, 2014

(Rec. #431)

Rec. #632: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #71

[Originally posted July 9, 2015.]

"Mona's Law. That's what she calls it. She says you can have a hot job, a hot lover, and a hot apartment, but you can't have all three at the same time."

--- Michael (Mouse) Tolliver,

More Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin, 1980

(Rec. #211)

Rec. #631: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #84

[Originally posted February 8, 2016.]

"Riding a hobbyhorse to death is flogging a dead metaphor."

--- Unnamed dinner party guest,

Pulse, Julian Barnes, 2011

(Rec. #380)

Rec. #625: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #83

[Originally posted November 25, 2015.]

"Most people nowadays are run by fear. Fear of what they eat, fear of what they drink, fear of their jobs, their future, fear of their health. They're scared to save money, and they're scared to spend it ... The people who commercialize on fear, you know they scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need."

--- Alice Sycamore,

You Can't Take It With You, 1938

(Rec. #327)

(List #42)

Rec. #624: Revisiting Quote from a Fictional Character #82

[Originally posted November 16, 2015.]

"She'd made a fool of herself -- she knew it even if he didn't -- and it was better to put it out of her thoughts lest she conclude again that reality was a world she dared not inhabit."

--- Melissa Aubrey,

Uncertain Voyage, Dorothy Gilman, 1967

(Rec. #167)