Freder > Freder's Quotes

“I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
― Groucho Marx

“I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it.”
― W.C. Fields

“Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.”
― W.C. Fields

“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
― W.C. Fields

“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
― W.C. Fields

“There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.”
― W.C. Fields

“Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.”
― W.C. Fields

“Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.”
― Earl Derr Biggers, The Black Camel

“It's nice having a bear about the house.”
― Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington

“Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.”
― Alasdair Gray, 1982, Janine

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray