All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. — Groucho Marx（Attribution unverified） |
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift（Attribution unverified） |
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. — John Cleese（Attribution unverified） |
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce（Attribution unverified） |
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm. — Marianne Moore（Attribution unverified） |
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. — Ford Frick（Attribution unverified） |
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. — Bob Hope（Attribution unverified） |
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. — William Hazlitt（Attribution unverified） |
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian. — Rachel Griffiths（Attribution unverified） |
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby（Attribution unverified） |
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It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor — John Cleese（Attribution unverified） |
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The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch. — Dave Barry（Attribution unverified） |
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it. — Christian Nestell Bovee（Attribution unverified） |
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music. — Billy Wilder（Attribution unverified） |
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For your information, I would like to ask a question. — Samuel Goldwyn（Attribution unverified） |
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A modest little person, with much to be modest about. — Winston Churchill（Attribution unverified） |
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright（Attribution unverified） |
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge（Attribution unverified） |
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |