Herring Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,…
— Conrad Black
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Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled…
— Hedrick Smith
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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest…
— Jude Law
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On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species…
— Luis Marden
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
— Daisy Ashford
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Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Heywood
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Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One of the most…
— Rachel Hamilton
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A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
— Sholom Aleichem
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Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Dryden
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If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
— Ann Landers
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When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be…
— Sloane Crosley
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There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You…
— John Fante
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Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.…
— Eugene Field
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First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so…
— Graham Chapman
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Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race…
— Arthur Koestler
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I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
— William Devane
Who Wrote These Herring Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Herring Quotes as follows: