Fortnight Quotes:

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

- Graham Nelson

topic: Broken Heart, Care, Fortnight, Follow Up

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

- Joseph Chamberlain

source: In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886, in A. J. Balfour 'Chapters of Autobiography' (1930) ch. 16

topic: Use, Next, Fortnight

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam

topic: Doubt, Trying, Fortnight, Provocation

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: 1937 'Prothalamion'.

topic: Hands, Found, Fortnight

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Running, Lasts, Fortnight, Imbecility

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

- Samuel Richardson

source: Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady”, p.168, 谷月社

topic: Lasts, Honeymoon, Fortnight

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.284, Ageless Reads

topic: Men, Ends, Fortnight

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)

topic: Carpe Diem, Men, Focus, Fortnight

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

- John Hume

source: "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

topic: Educational, Opinion, Week, Fortnight

Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Two, Waiting, Use, Fortnight

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

- Eamon de Valera

topic: Sympathy, War, People, Limerick, Fortnight

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Book, Writing, Air, Fortnight

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

topic: Baby, Men, Support, Brute Force, Fortnight

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.357, Harvard University Press

topic: Running, Fire, Shoes, Clothes And Shoes, Fortnight

You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

- Kate Ross

source: Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.19, Felony & Mayhem Press

topic: Too Much, Moments, Fireworks, Fortnight, Noisy

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

- Alexandre Dumas

source: Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3117, Delphi Classics

topic: Mad, Impossible, Said, Jailer, Fortnight

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

- Nigella Lawson

topic: Character, Going Out, Want, Fortnight

I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

- Jim Gaffigan

topic: Funny, Writing, Thinking, Nightfall, Stationery

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

topic: Catholic, Church, Divinity, Fortnight, Unbelievers

I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Eye, Dragons, Giving, Malfoy, Fortnight

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins

topic: Queens, Car, Albums, Good Omens, Omen

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

- Malcolm Bradbury

topic: Sex, Real, Struggle, Cocoa, Late Night

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

topic: Wife, Gentleman, Unhappy, Humorous Love, Marriage Humor

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

- Seth

topic: Want Something, Pebbles, Forget, Fortnight

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

- Brian Blessed

topic: Dad, Kids, Drawing, Fortnight

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

- Rose Macaulay

topic: Christmas, Lying, Years, Midwinter, Purgatory

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

- Russell Howard

topic: Funny, Humor, People, Unimaginable, Fortnight

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

- Katherine Jenkins

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Voice, Alcohol, Acid Reflux, Vocal Cords, Don't Drink Alcohol

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

topic: Sweet, Memories, Real, Nectar, Fortnight

I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Night, Jail, Fortnight

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

- David Mitchell

source: David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

topic: Keys, Order, Color, Clarinet, Overlapping

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: London, Spirit, Born, Spirit Of Place, Fortnight

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.253, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: Angel, Done, Said, Fortnight

When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

- Billy Connolly

topic: School, Air, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Fortnight

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

- Alan Bennett

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Broadway, Film, Made, Alterations, Fortnight

In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

- Jack Dee

topic: Taken, Doors, Years, Fortnight

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

- Sandra Cisneros

topic: Grief, Doors, Guests, Fortnight

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

- Sarah Ruhl

source: Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”

topic: Stars, Lying, Hands, Fortnight

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

topic: Mother, Son, Years, Mother Son, Mother Son Relationship