Quotes

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  • He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. – William Faulkner Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? – Ernest Hemingway

  • He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. – Abraham Lincoln

  • I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it. – Groucho Marx

  • I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend… if you have one. – George Bernard Shaw Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one. – Winston Churchill

  • I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here. – Stephen Bishop

  • He is a self-made man and worships his creator. – John Bright

  • He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. – Samuel Johnson

  • He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. – Paul Keating

  • He had delusions of adequacy. – Walter Kerr

  • There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure. – Jack E. Leonard

  • Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? – Mark Twain

  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others,whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde