Author: Sue Townsend

Cites

• Bertrand Russell (1)
  • IN: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The aristocratic rebel, since he has enough to eat, must have other causes of discontent.
    FROM: The History of Western Philosophy, (1945), NULL, UK
• D. H. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: The Adrian Mole Diaries (1982) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him... yet he chatted away with his mother. He would never have confessed to her how he suffered over these things and she only partly guessed.
    FROM: Sons and Lovers, (1913), Novel, UK
• William Shakespeare (3)
  • IN: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
    FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
  • IN: The Queen and I (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now, when thou wak'st, with thine own fool's eyes peek
    FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
• Lermontov (1)
  • IN: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.
    FROM: A Hero Of Our Time, (1840), Novel, NULL
• John Clarke (1)
  • IN: Number Ten (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so between them both, you see, They licked the platter clean.
    FROM: Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, (1639), NULL, New Zealand
• Shami Chakrabarti (1)
  • IN: Queen Camilla (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you throw live frogs into a pan of boiling water, they will sensibly jump out and save themselves. If you put them in a pan of cold water and gently apply heat until the water boils, they will lie in the pan and boil to death.
    FROM: Liberty, (None), NULL, UK
• attributed to Plato, and many others (1)
  • IN: The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Be kind, for everybody you meet is fighting a hard battle.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece