Jolly Quotes

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! — Walter Alexander Raleigh

Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie
with knobs on! — P.G. Wodehouse

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I say! That's rather racy. Jolly good stuff, what? — Gustav Jorgenson

Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees. — William Johnson Cory

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. — Dirk Nowitzki

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it. — Rose Macaulay

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. — Charlotte Rampling

My political giving has merely followed my relationships. — David Jolly

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow. — Georg Brandes

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. — Alison Jolly

I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler. — Phil Ochs

You can't make cheese from rats ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars. — Arthur M. Jolly

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer. — Arthur M. Jolly

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. — Hermann Hesse

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. — Jasper Fforde

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. — Arnold Bennett

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a jolly good cry And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you jolly well die. — Alexander McCall Smith

My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man. — George R R Martin

If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time. — Arthur M. Jolly

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. — Ogden Nash

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long. — Joanna Trollope

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. — George Carlin

Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea. — Kai Meyer

She was quick to anger, quick to laughter, and jolly from the depths of her soul. — Willa Cather

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. — Prince Charles

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am. — Dawn French

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking. — Euripides

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker! — Brian Jacques

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why. — Sybil Thorndike

MOM: Fuck santa. If I had a million little elves helping me and random people feeding me cookies, I'd be jolly all the time too. — Sophia Fraioli

George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister, — Louisa May Alcott

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson

hoping that this was some jolly practical joke and that the real chap would shortly jump out from behind a chair and say "Boo! — P.G. Wodehouse

By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! — Ford Madox Ford

Have a holly jolly Christmas! — Burl Ives

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — L.M. Montgomery

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers. — Arthur M. Jolly

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. — Aldous Huxley

If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know. — P.G. Wodehouse

This is a jolly imprudent adventure! — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. — Siegfried Sassoon

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea. — A. N. Wilson

What a jolly thing military surveillance is! — Belle Boyd

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. — Julia Sweeney

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. — Stephen Clarke

How about that one?"
"That fat thing?"
"Amber, it is a Christmas tree. It is supposed to be fat and jolly looking, like Santa Clause. — Sarah Holman

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson. — Marie-Pierre Moine

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

... maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous ... . - Zadie Smith — Zadie Smith

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul — Dawn Powell

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible. — Arthur M. Jolly

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose. — Francis Beaumont

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option. — Arthur M. Jolly

This life we endure - how strange, yet how jolly — Chris Ware

Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley

It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly. — Terry Pratchett

It's a jolly little junior vermin! — Brian Jacques

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. — Dick Cavett

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think. — Guy De Maupassant

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back. — Alison Jolly

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here. — Arthur M. Jolly

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you. — Margaret Thatcher

Cross the street and run away.
Have another jolly day.

PW c.1973 — Paige W. Pendleton

There might be some credit in being jolly. — Charles Dickens

Death can be jolly well inconvenient, if you ask me. — Gail Carriger

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees. — David Jolly

If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten. — Graham Chapman

People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
...
"People were meant to be as happy as you make them. — Jimmy Buffett

Anything free is worth what you pay for it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key. — Jimmy Buffett

Bibliomancy: Divination by jolly well Looking It Up. — Marilyn Johnson

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react ... should all be dragged against a wall and shot. — Arthur M. Jolly

Everything is going to be just fiiiiine — D.I. Jolly

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly. — Mindy Kaling

I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't. — Susan Hill

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts. — Squidward Tentacles

Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't. — Helen Valentine

Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises. — Auliq Ice

What does Austin need to move that large car? Powers! — Steve Jolly

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral — Lord Mountbatten

He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC. — Tad Williams

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. — Robert Baden-Powell

If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there
you jolly well are, aren't you? — Lord Buckley

I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead. — Ralph Blane

A rather jolly little pony, quite possibly wearing a straw hat with holes cut out for its ears. — Terry Pratchett

People are just people, no matter where you go. — Rick D. Jolly

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys. — Andrew Marr

I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare ... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand. — David Jolly

For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it. — P.G. Wodehouse

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. — George Ade

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister. — Princess Margaret

Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. — Walter De La Mare

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.' — The Notorious B.I.G.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. — Alice Walker