Favourite Quotes, Proverbs etc. - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The Dark Elf wrote:

Two from Winston Churchill:

Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I should flavour your coffee with poison!

W.C.: Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.

- AND -

Bessie Braddock, M.P.: Winston, you're drunk!

W.C.: Bessie, you're ugly. And tomorrow morning I shall be sober.

It would be great of Churchill was the originator but actually it appears that this kind of put down had been around for a long time.

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Hi,

I'm not one for quotes ... but there are two (three actually since 2 are from the same) of them that I will always remember ...

1. Ernest Borgnine in "THE WILD BUNCH" saying ... (paraphrasing to prevent .... ) why don't you kiss my rosey ...

2. Don Juan when Carlos showed him his thesis for UCLA .... "you know what Mexicans do with paper!"

3. Don Juan telling Carlos about the drugs ... "of course not, idiot, you didn't need them, but you were so difficult and always stuck to your brain, that we had to sidetrack you sometimes to get anything done!" (paraphrased)

A lot of the other bits and pieces that I like to quote, of all of them my favorite is from the play "MARAT/SADE" and some of the incredible and incendiary exchanges between the Marquis and Jean-Paul Marat.

Marat: I am the revolution!

Sade: No. You are just another idiot that thinks he can change the world! (slightly paraphrased!)

...

(later) ... interruption and the French this and that says ... "Mr. de Sade, I object. The patients are here for "therapy", not play!

(... the play is full of rich bits!)

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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Some from my favourite quipstress, Dorothy Parker:

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”

"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp

"Is that so"........the story of Haquin

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great (Machiavelli)

But I don't know how to describe the modern rose, when I can't refer to her shape against her clothes

(Cruel by Paddy McAloon)

Satanism is every other religion apart from your own (from an FBI report in the wake of the 'Satanic Panic' of the 80s - author unknown)

Hell is other people (Jean Paul Sartre)

The Earl of Sandwich: "Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox."

John Wilkes: "That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

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