Crooked Quote by Les Standiford

“Bill handed me an envelope. I handed it back to him. I told him, “I’ll do a friend a favor.” Russell had taught me…

— Charles Brandt

“Giancana was taken care of in his kitchen in the back of the head and then under the chin six times, Sicilian style, to…

— Charles Brandt

“Russell said something in Sicilian about stormy weather conditions that roughly translates into “You never can tell how things are going to work out.…

— Charles Brandt

Kurt Russell said another brilliant thing. He had starred in umpteen movies by that point. And he said, "Generally speaking, in every film I've…

— Tim Matheson

“I didn’t know anything about “made men” back then. That’s a special status in the alleged mob where you go through a ceremony and…

— Charles Brandt

“The famous atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.”

— Dan DeWitt

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process…

— Doris Lessing

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead…

— James Taranto

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

— Matthew McConaughey

“Well, She's (She-Hulk) quippy. I'm quippy. When we get together, we quip. And, quipwise, I think that makes me a better quipper. -Spiderman”

— Dan Slott

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

— Holly Black

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,…

— William Shakespeare