All learned people learn Latin. It’s bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don’t mean to do.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person’s situation.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

What is difficult about learning – any kind of learning – is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

I want to be special,” I said obstinately at last.“So does everyone else. So we have to take turns.”‘But some people are more special than others, aren’t they?“Juniper suddenly got extremely irritated. "The really special ones are the ones who don’t even think about it,” she said.

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?Juniper: I can't be bothered.

Marian, in her boy’s clothing, sat astride a fallen treetrunk near the Trysetell Tree, her eyes fixed on Robin, who stood perfectly still, waiting. He looked at her, smiling the smile Dummy had noticed before whenever he was in danger, as if he were living entirely in that moment of time without thought for the past or future, and was thoroughly enjoying himself.” “Gilbert wrapped Jehan in a cloak of Lincoln green and laid him tenderly in the Oratory, heaping the bright snow about him.