Herring Quotes · Page 2

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

— Robert Knepper

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

— John Heywood

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the…

— Peter Greenaway

Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To…

— Patch Adams

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…

— Elizabeth Bishop

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread…

— Hedrick Smith

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

— Ann Landers

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

— Lotte Lenya

I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

— Robert Englund

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the…

— Elinor Wylie

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

— William Shakespeare

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

— Sholom Aleichem