Famous quotes containing the words bert leston taylor, bert leston, bert, leston, taylor and/or chicago:
“All we can get out of a Shaw play is two hours and a half of mental exhilaration. We are, inscrutably, denied the pleasure of wondering what Shaw means, or whether he is sincere.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)
“All we can get out of a Shaw play is two hours and a half of mental exhilaration. We are, inscrutably, denied the pleasure of wondering what Shaw means, or whether he is sincere.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)
“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)
“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)
“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)