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Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. She also wrote a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.

Her one-woman live show Stevie Wonder Felt My Face won acclaim in the 1980s; her other shows were Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. November 1951 – 29. February 2016

Works

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Withering Tights
Withering Tights
Louise Rennison
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Famous Louise Rennison Quotes

“Oh, Blimey O'Riley's pantyhose…. What is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. 'What light doth through yonder window break?' It's the bloody moon, for God sake, Will, get a grip!”

Louise Rennison

Variant: Oh Blimey O‘Reilly's pantyhose... what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

“Everyone is so bloody keen on me thinking all of a sudden. It's not what I do.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I’m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon.

I wonder how many of them haven’t got any eyebrows?”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

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“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“He says we should take it easy and that maybe he overreacted a bit."

Dave said, "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Louise Rennison Quotes

“I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty.”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?'
'Look, shut up, people might hear.'
'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?”

Louise Rennison

Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“Look, I can't go out with you, because… because… because I'm a lesbian.”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

“When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”

Louise Rennison book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Source: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?”

Louise Rennison

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!”

Louise Rennison

Source: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

“And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

“As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up… but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non… I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!”

Louise Rennison

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

“Shut up Jas, you are not Baby Jesus”

Louise Rennison

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“P. P. S. I am giving you telepathic hugs.
P. P. P. S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“And that's when it fell off in my hand”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.”

Louise Rennison book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Source: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

“Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson”

Louise Rennison book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Source: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

“I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen.”

Louise Rennison

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

“I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.”

Louise Rennison

“Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.”

Louise Rennison

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.”

Louise Rennison

Source: A Midsummer Tights Dream

“I am a pop widow.”

Louise Rennison book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

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