Source: The Pillars of the Earth
“Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir — and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed — and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again.”
Ekdal, Act II
The Wild Duck (1884)
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Henrik Ibsen 69
Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906Related quotes
R. A. Lafferty
(1914–2002) American writer
Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: The devils stroll the earth again and infect with the red sickness. They must, at all cost to themselves, destroy the growing tendrils before such can touch the other side. For, whenever one least growing creeper touches across the interval, that means the extinction of a devil. It is a thing to be tested. Notice it that whenever there is the special shrilling, when there is the wild flinging out of catchwords to catch you in, when there are the weird exceptions and inclusions, when there are specious arguments and the murderous defamations, when all the volubility of the voltairians and the cuteness of the queers has been assembled to confound you, then one green growth has almost reached across to the other side, one devil is in danger of extinction. Oh, they will defend against that!
Variant: Whats up, Seaweed Brain?
Source: The Last Olympian
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!”
Variant: You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!”
“You’re impossible!”
“Love you too!
Source: The House of Hades
