Wordplay Quotes
54 quotes by 25 authors
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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
— Woody Allen
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The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description…
— Harryette Mullen
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We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way…
— Milton William Cooper
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You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay.…
— Clive Owen
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Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes…
— Zhuangzi
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One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and…
— St. Vincent
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
— Mark Twain
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
— Oscar Wilde
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
— Dorothy Parker
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Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
— Dorothy Parker
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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
— Dorothy Parker
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
— Dorothy Parker
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Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
— Julio Cortazar
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
— Dorothy Parker
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What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the…
— Lewis Carroll
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Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the…
— Lewis Carroll
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Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.
— Groucho Marx
Who Wrote These Wordplay Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 54 Wordplay Quotes as follows: