Joss Whedon Quotes

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so far are princes who turn into frogs." "Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.