Jim Butcher Quotes

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Who is he?" "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Charitably, you could say it was a little long. In fact, it was a lot long.

A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.

I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.

"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.