All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. — Finley Peter Dunne（Attribution unverified） |
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Why was I born with such contemporaries? — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. — Andrea Fay Friedman（Attribution unverified） |
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It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word. — William Zinsser（Attribution unverified） |
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I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm — Lindsey Kelk（Attribution unverified） |
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We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing — George Carlin（Attribution unverified） |
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Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small. — Kevin Hart（Attribution unverified） |
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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie（Attribution unverified） |
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb（Attribution unverified） |
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between? — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy. — Aaron Sorkin（Attribution unverified） |
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. — Steven Wright（Attribution unverified） |
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married. — Shelley Winters（Attribution unverified） |
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Television has raised writing to a new low. — Samuel Goldwyn（Attribution unverified） |
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? — Clarence Darrow（Attribution unverified） |