Leslie Charteris Quotes

I can be a lazy slob.

I am most certainly not rich. But I am a man who is intrinsically lazy. And I'm more than happy to put a piece of cheese on a rice cake and call that dinner.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

I'm a lazy sod.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.

Fear will make you stingy.

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

I am an immature person, and I am very lazy, too.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.