Quotable quotes
1. He has gone to join the majority – Petronius Arbiter (said of a man who had recently died)
2. I do honour the very flea of his dog - Ben Johnson
3. Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding - King James VI of Scotland
4. "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt
5. Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. Will no one free me of this turbulent priest? - Attrb King Henry II
7. Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha? - Ian Hay
8. Cave Canem - Beware of the dog - Petronius Arbiter
9. I have never a piece of toast/ Particularly long and wide,/ But fell upon the sanded floor,/ And always on the buttered side. – James Payn
10. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. – Robert Owen
11. We seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? – Is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel? – Baroness Orczy
12. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it – George Orwell.
13. Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker – Ogden Nash.
14. When Ah itches, Ah scratches – Ogden Nash
15. I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned – Ogden Nash
16. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art. – Ogden Nash
17. Beneath this slab / John Brown is stowed /He watched the ads/ And not the
road - Ogden Nash
18. The cow is of the bovine ilk / One end is moo, the other, milk. – Ogden Nash
19. It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen – Cardinal John Henry Newman
20. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off – Anthony Newby
21. It’s as large as life, and twice as natural – Lewis Carroll.
22. Peccavi – ‘I have sinned.’ – Message sent after conquest of Sindh – Charles James Napier
23. Nobody ever beats Wales at rugby, they just score more points – Graham Mourie
24. SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN CHIMNEY – The story to fit this sensational headline has not turned up yet – J. B. Morton
25. This is adding insult to injuries – Edward Moore
26. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me – (Winnie the Pooh) A.A. Milne
27. When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold – Prince Clement Metternich
28. Italy is a geographical expression – Prince Clement Metternich
29. Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped – Groucho Marx
30. Because it is there – George Leigh Mallory (When asked why he wished to climb Mt. Everest)
31. We hear war called murder. It is not – it is suicide – Ramsay Macdonald.
32. My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you - Attrb Benjamin Jowett
33. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street –
Laurence J. Peter.
34. And so to bed – Samuel Pepys
35. Assassination is the extreme from of censorship – Shaw
36. If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find
something in them to hang him – Cardinal de Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
37. We called him Tortoise because he taught us - Lewis Carroll
38. “Contrariwise,”continued Tweedledee, “If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – LC
39. And some there be, which have no memorial – Apocrypha
40. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore – Apocrypha
41. To see a World in a Grain of Sand, / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold
Infinity in the palm of your hand, / And Eternity in an hour – William Blake
42. Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen – Ambrose Bierce.
43. Do as we say, and not as we do – Giovanni Boccaccio
44. Aut Caesar aut nihil – Emperor or nothing – Cesare Borgia.
45. The great Unwashed – Attrb Lord Henry Brougham
46. I am still an atheist, thank God – Attrb Luis Bunuel
47. An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one
side of the case; God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler
48. I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy – Samuel Butler
49. We think as we do, mainly because other people think so – Samuel Butler
50. I’ve arrived, and to prove it, I’m here – Max Bygraves
51. And a woman is just a woman but a good cigar is a smoke – Rudyard Kipling
52. But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: / “It’s clever, but is it Art?” -
Rudyard Kipling
53. A man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity – Rudyard Kipling
54. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know – Lady Caroline Lamb (said of Byron)
55. Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? – Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
56. Ils ne passeront pas. They shall not pass – General Robert Nivelle (Statement at Battle of Verdun, 1916)
57. Laws were made to be broken – Christopher North
58. That grand old man – Sir Stafford Northcote (of Gladstone)
59. Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do. – Attrb Viscount Palmerston
60. How could they tell? (on hearing that US President Calvin Coolidge had died)
– Dorothy Parker
61. Festina lente – Hasten slowly – Suetonius
62. There is no alternative – Margaret Thatcher
63. J’accuse - I accuse – Emile Zola (Dreyfus Affair)
64. Consummatum est – It is finished – Vulgate
65. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man – George Meredith
66. Don’t give up the ship – James Lawrence
67. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I’ll
never know. – Groucho Marx
68. He has occasional flashes of silence , that make his conversation perfectly
delightful – Sydney Smith
69. Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise – Tobias George Smollett
70. Who’s your fat friend? – Beau Brummel (said of the Prince of Wales, 1813)
71. You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct – W Somerset Maugham
2. I do honour the very flea of his dog - Ben Johnson
3. Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding - King James VI of Scotland
4. "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt
5. Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. Will no one free me of this turbulent priest? - Attrb King Henry II
7. Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha? - Ian Hay
8. Cave Canem - Beware of the dog - Petronius Arbiter
9. I have never a piece of toast/ Particularly long and wide,/ But fell upon the sanded floor,/ And always on the buttered side. – James Payn
10. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. – Robert Owen
11. We seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? – Is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel? – Baroness Orczy
12. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it – George Orwell.
13. Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker – Ogden Nash.
14. When Ah itches, Ah scratches – Ogden Nash
15. I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned – Ogden Nash
16. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art. – Ogden Nash
17. Beneath this slab / John Brown is stowed /He watched the ads/ And not the
road - Ogden Nash
18. The cow is of the bovine ilk / One end is moo, the other, milk. – Ogden Nash
19. It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen – Cardinal John Henry Newman
20. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off – Anthony Newby
21. It’s as large as life, and twice as natural – Lewis Carroll.
22. Peccavi – ‘I have sinned.’ – Message sent after conquest of Sindh – Charles James Napier
23. Nobody ever beats Wales at rugby, they just score more points – Graham Mourie
24. SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN CHIMNEY – The story to fit this sensational headline has not turned up yet – J. B. Morton
25. This is adding insult to injuries – Edward Moore
26. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me – (Winnie the Pooh) A.A. Milne
27. When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold – Prince Clement Metternich
28. Italy is a geographical expression – Prince Clement Metternich
29. Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped – Groucho Marx
30. Because it is there – George Leigh Mallory (When asked why he wished to climb Mt. Everest)
31. We hear war called murder. It is not – it is suicide – Ramsay Macdonald.
32. My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you - Attrb Benjamin Jowett
33. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street –
Laurence J. Peter.
34. And so to bed – Samuel Pepys
35. Assassination is the extreme from of censorship – Shaw
36. If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find
something in them to hang him – Cardinal de Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
37. We called him Tortoise because he taught us - Lewis Carroll
38. “Contrariwise,”continued Tweedledee, “If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – LC
39. And some there be, which have no memorial – Apocrypha
40. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore – Apocrypha
41. To see a World in a Grain of Sand, / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold
Infinity in the palm of your hand, / And Eternity in an hour – William Blake
42. Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen – Ambrose Bierce.
43. Do as we say, and not as we do – Giovanni Boccaccio
44. Aut Caesar aut nihil – Emperor or nothing – Cesare Borgia.
45. The great Unwashed – Attrb Lord Henry Brougham
46. I am still an atheist, thank God – Attrb Luis Bunuel
47. An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one
side of the case; God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler
48. I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy – Samuel Butler
49. We think as we do, mainly because other people think so – Samuel Butler
50. I’ve arrived, and to prove it, I’m here – Max Bygraves
51. And a woman is just a woman but a good cigar is a smoke – Rudyard Kipling
52. But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: / “It’s clever, but is it Art?” -
Rudyard Kipling
53. A man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity – Rudyard Kipling
54. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know – Lady Caroline Lamb (said of Byron)
55. Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? – Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
56. Ils ne passeront pas. They shall not pass – General Robert Nivelle (Statement at Battle of Verdun, 1916)
57. Laws were made to be broken – Christopher North
58. That grand old man – Sir Stafford Northcote (of Gladstone)
59. Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do. – Attrb Viscount Palmerston
60. How could they tell? (on hearing that US President Calvin Coolidge had died)
– Dorothy Parker
61. Festina lente – Hasten slowly – Suetonius
62. There is no alternative – Margaret Thatcher
63. J’accuse - I accuse – Emile Zola (Dreyfus Affair)
64. Consummatum est – It is finished – Vulgate
65. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man – George Meredith
66. Don’t give up the ship – James Lawrence
67. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I’ll
never know. – Groucho Marx
68. He has occasional flashes of silence , that make his conversation perfectly
delightful – Sydney Smith
69. Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise – Tobias George Smollett
70. Who’s your fat friend? – Beau Brummel (said of the Prince of Wales, 1813)
71. You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct – W Somerset Maugham
posted by Rare Hand Axe at 6:06 am
1 Comments:
i notice a distinct leaning toward British notables. Reminds of that quote about Satan - that he is at a disadvantage because all the books were written by God.
Don't forget to be more balanced in your reading (and writing). Surely (North and South) American and Asian writers write quotable quotes too?
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