110+ Diana Wynne Jones Quotes On Friendship, Education And Religion

Diana Wynne Jones was an English writer, primarily of fantasy novels for children and adults. She wrote more than forty books, including the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the Howl's Moving Castle series, and many stand-alone novels. Her works are characterised by magic, multiple universes, humour, and a strong sense of morality. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Diana Wynne Jones on love, friendship, education.

Top 10 Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

1. I think we ought to live happily ever after.
2. That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
3. Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
4. She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
5. A heart's a heavy burden.
6. Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
7. Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
8. And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
9. I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.
10. Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

Diana Wynne Jones Short Quotes

• You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
• Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
• Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
• It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
• I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.
• What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
• A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.
• Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
• ...don't spoil my learning process!
• You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes About Love

Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then? — Diana Wynne Jones

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before." Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170 — Diana Wynne Jones

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. — Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes About Sort

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. — Diana Wynne Jones

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this. — Diana Wynne Jones

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now. — Diana Wynne Jones

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. — Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes About Fantasy

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it. — Diana Wynne Jones

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true. — Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. — Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes About Feel

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him. — Diana Wynne Jones

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die. — Diana Wynne Jones

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one. — Diana Wynne Jones

No I am not all right!” Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. “I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I’m tired out and I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position? — Diana Wynne Jones

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear. — Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Famous Quotes And Sayings

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. — Diana Wynne Jones

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan. — Diana Wynne Jones

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said. — Diana Wynne Jones

By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast! — Diana Wynne Jones

"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed. — Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie. — Diana Wynne Jones

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman. — Diana Wynne Jones

In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. — Diana Wynne Jones

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. — Diana Wynne Jones

Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself! — Diana Wynne Jones

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. — Diana Wynne Jones

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. — Diana Wynne Jones

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that. — Diana Wynne Jones

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances — Diana Wynne Jones

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle — Diana Wynne Jones

Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots. — Diana Wynne Jones

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward. — Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers. — Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. — Diana Wynne Jones

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them. — Diana Wynne Jones

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger. — Diana Wynne Jones

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook. — Diana Wynne Jones

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. — Diana Wynne Jones

Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it. — Diana Wynne Jones

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up? — Diana Wynne Jones

Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned. — Diana Wynne Jones

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. — Diana Wynne Jones

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl). — Diana Wynne Jones

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters. — Diana Wynne Jones

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway? — Diana Wynne Jones

All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it. — Diana Wynne Jones

It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind? — Diana Wynne Jones

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. — Diana Wynne Jones

You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said. — Diana Wynne Jones

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so. — Diana Wynne Jones

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else. — Diana Wynne Jones

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. — Diana Wynne Jones

Beauty isn't made of sugar. — Diana Wynne Jones

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world — Diana Wynne Jones

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong! — Diana Wynne Jones

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me? — Diana Wynne Jones

When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked. — Diana Wynne Jones

I seem to have excalibured this knife. — Diana Wynne Jones

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life. — Diana Wynne Jones

Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here! — Diana Wynne Jones

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance. — Diana Wynne Jones

There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile. — Diana Wynne Jones

Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. "Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny. — Diana Wynne Jones

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane. — Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. — Diana Wynne Jones

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted. — Diana Wynne Jones

...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered. — Diana Wynne Jones

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it. — Diana Wynne Jones

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace. — Diana Wynne Jones

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily. — Diana Wynne Jones

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another- — Diana Wynne Jones

The truth between two people always cuts two ways. — Diana Wynne Jones

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books. — Diana Wynne Jones

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things! — Diana Wynne Jones

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see. — Diana Wynne Jones

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous. — Diana Wynne Jones

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. — Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. — Diana Wynne Jones

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me. — Diana Wynne Jones

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest — Diana Wynne Jones

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person. — Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought. — Diana Wynne Jones

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought. — Diana Wynne Jones

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die! — Diana Wynne Jones

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie — Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. — Diana Wynne Jones

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. — Diana Wynne Jones

By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went. — Diana Wynne Jones

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it. — Diana Wynne Jones

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it. — Diana Wynne Jones

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them — Diana Wynne Jones

Life Lessons by Diana Wynne Jones

1. Diana Wynne Jones' work emphasizes the importance of being creative and using imagination to solve problems.
2. Her stories often feature characters who challenge the status quo and work together to overcome adversity.
3. Her work also highlights the importance of friendship and loyalty, as well as the power of storytelling and the importance of having a positive attitude.