meggilyweggily’s most recent Quotables

Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.

It's funny how the Earth never opens up and swallows you when you want it to.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Remember, always be yourself... unless you suck.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I'm not upset that you lied to me; I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

"Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.