Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Frost

There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

Dave Bristol

Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings

David Lloyd George

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

David Lloyd George

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

D. H. Lawrence

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

A. E. Housman

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Cyril Connolly

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Alexis de Tocqueville

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

Aubrey Plaza

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

Bill Vaughan

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Bill Bryson

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

Eugene Field

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

Erma Bombeck

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Fiona Apple

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

Cassandra Clare

very funny my sarcastic friend

Cassandra Clare

Hey, pretty thing," he said. "What's in the bag?" "Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. "Oooh, a Shadowhunter," said the vampire. "Scary." With a wink he melted back into the crowd. "Vampires are such prima donnas," Magnus sighed from the doorway. "Honestly, I don't know why I have these parties." "Because of your cat," Clary reminded him. Magnus perked up. "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.

Cassandra Clare

A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-

Elsa Lanchester

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

George Bernard Shaw

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

Better never than late.

George Bernard Shaw

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

J. D. Salinger

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Jack London

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

J. C. Watts

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.