(13 quotes found)
“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
S. J. Perelman
“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.”
“Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - p%tZ, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.”
“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”
“A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals and taste so degraded that it befouled everything it touched.”
“The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. . . . You are what you are.”
“I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.”
“Crazy like a fox.”
“Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence.”
“Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.”