Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image