Joseph Heller Quotes

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

Even death has a heart.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.