Body Quote by Mark Forsyth

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.”

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“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words for swords, for wenches, and for being hanged. They did no die, they danced on nothing. Then I peek into any one of my rural Victorian dictionaries, compiled by a lonely clergyman, with words for coppices, thickets, lanes,…

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“Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’, which he [Cab Calloway] helpfully explains as ‘the proper way to ask a young lady to go to the movies’. It should be noted here, that if the object of your affections replies ‘Kill me’, they are not requesting to be euthanatised and you should not actually murder them.…

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“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.”

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“There's always a strange feeling you get when you come across one particular line by chance. It feels somehow significant. That's irrational of course,…

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“Oxygen was called flammable air for a while, but it didn't catch on.”

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