Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by William Joyce

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-Irish fascist supporter and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took German citizenship in 1940.

American - Author | April 24, 1906 - January 3, 1946

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So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.

William Joyce

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

William Joyce

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

William Joyce

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

William Joyce

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

William Joyce

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

William Joyce

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

William Joyce

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

William Joyce

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

William Joyce

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

William Joyce

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

William Joyce

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

William Joyce

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

William Joyce

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

William Joyce

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

William Joyce

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

William Joyce

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

William Joyce

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

William Joyce

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

William Joyce

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

William Joyce

Everyone's story matters.

William Joyce

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...

William Joyce

I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.

William Joyce

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.

William Joyce

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

William Joyce

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

William Joyce

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

William Joyce

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

William Joyce

In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.

William Joyce

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

William Joyce

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

William Joyce

Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters.

William Joyce

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