Quotes About Expression

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Newsflash: air quotes are out.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

Let's have some new clichés!

Talleyrand, talking of a man who dealt in nothing but quotations, said, "That man has a mind of inverted commas."

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Entertainment is the first function of radio and always will be, whether presented through a majestic polyphonic ensemble or through a lone artist whose talent grips millions by a single word.

– What the hail? – For the hail of it – Hail yah!

Hail is just angry rain.

I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck.

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

I've never faked a sarcasm.

Sarcasm: It's how I hug.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic — it just comes naturally.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.