"Though the male can be noble in reason……" — Patricia Marx
"Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk."
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Patricia Marx
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16 Quotes by Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx has 16 quotes on this site.
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Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there…
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What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
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I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle…
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It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In…
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There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a…
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it…
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
— Charles Edward Montague
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Unknown Author
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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