Wry Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book…
— Alistair Cooke
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I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to…
— Simon Pegg
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It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I…
— Tom Baker
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Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision:…
— Charles Harper Webb
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The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
— Ken Bruen
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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry…
— Thomas Traherne
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming.…
— Roger Angell
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A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with…
— Tim Maleeny
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To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights…
— Chase Twichell
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Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or…
— Ken Follett
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Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest,…
— Brian Epstein
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Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of…
— Michelle Huneven
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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes.…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry…
— Tom Bodett
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
— Augustus William Hare
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Wry Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 39 Wry Quotes, led by these top contributors: