Top 10 Quotes by Rupert Giles

Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

Rupert Giles

Book, Smell, Gone

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

Rupert Giles

Library Research, Library, Research

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Rupert Giles

Tea, Wish, Tense

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Graduation Day: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 1999.

The earth is definitely doomed.

Rupert Giles

Earth, Doomed

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ The Harvest/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1997.

Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious.

Rupert Giles

America, I'm Back, Wells

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Flooded". October 2001.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Rupert Giles

Compassion, People, Forgiving

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ I Only Have Eyes for You". April 1998.

From time to time, I am asked--by people with an alarming lack of tact--why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.

Rupert Giles

Children, Men, People

Pardon me for finding the glass half full.

Rupert Giles

Glasses, Half, Pardon

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Rupert Giles

Nice, Elements, Computer

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Rupert Giles

Pride, Thinking, Order

"Fictional chracter: Rupert Giles". TV Series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ("Some Assembly Required", 1997), www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.