Top 30 William Joyce Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Keep moving forward.”

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

3. “Everyone’s story matters.”

— William Joyce

4. “Germany calling! Germany Calling!”

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

6. “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

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

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

9. “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

10. “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

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

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

14. “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

15. “I don’t regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.”

— William Joyce

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.”

— William Joyce

23. “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

24. “Nightlight, who never slept and never dreamed, would keep nightmares, both imagined and real, away.”

— William Joyce

25. “If you really want to tell stories, do it and don’t be dissuaded.”

— William Joyce

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

— William Joyce

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.”

— William Joyce

30. “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

31. “But it was in the nearly silent times that the real strength of their bond was evident. A friend who understands everything without being told is the rarest and best kind of friend.”

— William Joyce

32. “Strange, wondrous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. Uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost or found. Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep. And then we awake, with disappointment or relief, as if nothing at all had happened. But sometimes things do happen.”

— William Joyce

33. “When a tree’s leaves wave slightly or when you hear consistent creaking and groaning of limbs and there is no wind, chances are you are being laughed at by a tree. They may find your clothes ridiculous. Your hiking skills clumsy. Or your yodeling off-key. It is not cruel or teasing laughter. They are simply amused.”

— William Joyce

34. “In all my centers of life, in all those times I had seen the hug and the kiss good night, I had only watched. No Mother or Father had ever done those things to me. I knew their power; I knew that this ritual was a great protector of children during their journey through the night.”

— William Joyce