Silly Quotes - Page 22

• I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

  James Joyce

  Funny, Humorous, Book

  19 Copy quote

• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Pride, Men

  18 Copy quote

• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  Amy Lowell

  War, Boys, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Guy, Eccentric, Social

  4 Copy quote

• I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

  Paula Poundstone

  Shoes, Paper, Toilets

  4 Copy quote

• If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

  Doris Day

  Men, People, Doe

  11 Copy quote

• Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

  Bob Newhart

  Waste, Being Silly, Don't Waste Your Time

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

  Josh Groban

  Jobs, Couple, Stuff I Like

  4 Copy quote

• NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Player, Nfl

  4 Copy quote

• I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

  Glenn Ford

  Wind, Actors, Fifty

  7 Copy quote

• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Should Have, Sake, Serious

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.494, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Two, Coward

  7 Copy quote

• This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

  Sarah Lacy

  Girl, Running, Responsibility

  4 Copy quote

• I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Ideas, Band, Get Up

  4 Copy quote

• Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

  Eric Burdon

  Kids, Rocks, Idols

  4 Copy quote

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  Tanith Lee

  School, Actresses, Grew Up

  4 Copy quote

• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  P. T. Barnum

  Absurd, Witchcraft, Disgusting

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.307

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, Kind, Shallow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

  Rob Brydon

  Voice, People, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

  Alfred Bester

  Fiction, Nonsense, Science Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, it doesn't look silly, it doesn't look stupid. It holds up. It's fun. A lot of people have enjoyed it, and I'm real happy about it.

  Michael Biehn

  Fun, Real, Stupid

  "Michael Biehn on The Victim, William Friedkin, and his favorite antagonist role". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Growing Up, Able, Scrutiny

  7 Copy quote

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  Hank Azaria

  Character, Voice, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

  Peter Cushing

  Long, Film, Making Money

  6 Copy quote