Wordplay Quotes

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!

~ Lewis Carroll

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

~ Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

~ Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

~ Dorothy Parker

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of.

~ Douglas Adams

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

~ Dorothy Parker

I think a man's wordplay can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!

~ Junnita Jackson

Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what?' [Banaschar] sneered. 'Explanations?' 'No. Answers. There's a difference-' 'Really? How? What difference?' 'Explanations are what people use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those,'cause those don't explain nothing and then they look at you like they just cleared things up when really they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they know you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know them and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know.' 'Right, and answers?' 'Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't like what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing!

~ Steven Erikson

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

~ Criss Jami

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

~ Julio Cortázar

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.'`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'`Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!

~ Lewis Carroll

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

~ Lewis Carroll

Leave your incidental Dick.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot,” he added, helpfully.

~ Neil Gaiman

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an inscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives.

~ Joe Hill

The word is my weapon. FIRE!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.

~ Alan Dapre

You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p

~ Emma Richler

Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only “frail.” They are not artistic: they are only lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

~ Oscar Wilde

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

~ Criss Jami

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

~ Criss Jami

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

~ Dorothy Parker

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

~ Woody Allen

Life never be serious with you it always make fun of you so learn to have fun.

~ Siddhant R. Shinde

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

~ Criss Jami

These two oo in book are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

~ Stefanos Livos

It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an 'I', or a shaft of light between almost closed curtains. There is an old letter called a thorn, which jags and tears at the throat as it's uttered. Later he learns that Grammar and Glamour share the same deeper root, which is further magic, and there can be neither magic without that root, nor plant. He's lost in it like Chid in Child, or God reversed into Dog. Somewhere inside him is a colon. A sentence can last for life.

~ Charles Lambert

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

~ Initially No

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast.

~ Henry James

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

~ Oscar Wilde

It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

~ Neil Gaiman

People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

I tend to throw tantrums a lot. Wear a helmet in my presence.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

hate school but love school and threat it right so you can be where you love to be all right?

~ Mohlalefi J Motsima

Justice has to be cold. Deal with it, it's just ice.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.

~ Natalya Vorobyova