Quotes on Basil

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.