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All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
Molière1622–1673Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), Act II, sc. iv
- Writing
Cover up that bosom, which I can’t
Endure to look on. Things like that offend
Our souls, and fill our minds with sinful thoughts.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act III, Scene II, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Sex
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962Telegram, turning down a party invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (13 June 1962)
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 125. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
- Religion
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 46. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
- Clever Jabs
- Religion
What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells.
Alan Mooreborn 1953De Abaitua interview (1998)
Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.
Alan Mooreborn 1953“The Mindscape of Alan Moore” (2003)
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book II (3 of 4)In context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people’s employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
In terms of like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
John Mulaneyborn 1982New in Town (2012)
I was raised Catholic. I don’t know if you can tell that from the everything about me.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Religion
I like having a puppy that’s a bulldog, ‘cause it’s like having a baby that is also a grandma.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Animals
For those of you who aren’t Catholic, I don’t mean to exclude you, although we love to exclude you.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Religion
I can cry like Roger. It’s just a shame I can’t play like him.
Andy Murrayborn 1987After being defeated by Roger Federer; BBC sports report 31 January 2010
- Sports
I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.
Elon Muskborn 197112 September 2012
- Life & Death