Eel Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. — Tobias Smollett
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to… — William Shenstone
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of… — Ambrose Bierce
The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands… — W.C. Fields
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English… — Dave Barry
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge… — Tobias Smollett
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic… — Graham Joyce
[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of… — Madison Grant
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — Sark
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. — Edith Sitwell
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. — Leonardo da Vinci
I have the backbone of an eel. — Betty White
Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. — C.S. Lewis
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of… — Edith Sitwell
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where… — Arthur Golden
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as… — Georgette Heyer
I have a name,â€ I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. â€œYes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,â€ he said, trying it out in… — Kim Harrison

Who Wrote These Eel Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 22 Eel Quotes as follows: