Saturday 1 June 2013

My favourite Narnia quotes

"By gum," said Digory, "don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!" (The Magician's Nephew)

"Blast and botheration!" exclaimed Digory. (The Magician's Nephew)

"That's all you know," Digory said to Polly. "It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged."
"How exactly like a man!" said Polly in a very grown up voice. "And don't you say I'm just like a woman, or you'll be a beastly copy-cat."
"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.
"Oh, I'm a kid am I?" said Polly who was now in a real rage. "I've had enough of you, you beastly, stuck-up obstinate pig!" (The Magician's Nephew)

"Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?" said he.
"Rather!" said Lucy. (The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe)

"Well, of all the poisonous little beasts -" said Peter, then said no more.
"I'll pay you all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, self satisfied prigs." Edmund was saying to himself. (The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe)

Giants of any sort are now so rare in England and so few giants are good-tempered that ten to one you have never seen a giant when his face is beaming. It's a sight well worth looking at. (The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe)

"I hope you've been quite comfortable," said Aravis.
"Never better stabled in my life," said Bree. "But if the husband of that tittering Tarkheena friend of yours is paying his head groom to get the best oats, then I think the head groom is cheating him." (The Horse And His Boy)

"By Jove!" said Peter. "This is good enough." (Prince Caspian)

"Well, I'm - I'm jiggered," said Peter. (Prince Caspian)

"Great Scott!" said Edmund (Prince Caspian)

"Oh bother, bother, bother," said Susan. (Prince Caspian)

"Why, you silly," said Peter (who had become strangely excited). (Prince Caspian)

"That's all right, lass," said Trumpkin with a chuckle. "A jibe won't raise a blister." (Prince Caspian)

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and his masters called him Scrubb. U can't tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. He called his father and mother Harold and Alberta. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and tee-totallers and wore a special kind of underclothes. Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned in a card. He liked books if they had pictures of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools." (The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader)

"We thought the King's Majesty would have married the Duke's daughter but nothing came of that -"
"Squints and has freckles," said Caspian.
"Oh, poor girl," said Lucy. (The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader)

After that, the Dwarf touched up his donkey and it set off towards the castle at something between a trot and a waddle (it was a very fat little beast). (The Silver Chair)

"Little Swine," shrieked Eustace, dancing in his rage. "Dirty, filthy, treacherous little brutes," (The Last Battle)

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