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# Quotable
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/30435/
- Published: 2013-11-21T07:10:48.000Z
- Updated: 2013-11-21T07:10:48.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Funny Quotes

Max Beerbohm's older brother, Herbert, was a funny guy. Once, when a man walked past him groaning under a grandfather clock he was carting on his back, Herbert said, "My good fellow, why not carry a watch?" (Joseph Epstein, *Partial Payments*).

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Waugh, a stickler for good style and grammar, on the prose of less-rigorous writer: "To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee."

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"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's ready by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves." Don Marquis.

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"I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it." Edith Wharton.

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"Gibbon's style is detestable; but it is not the worst thing about him." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 On Andrew Greeley's *The Cardinal Sins*: "Enough to give trash a bad name." *Chicago Sun-Times*.