Best sentence you've ever heard?

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.


CASABLANCA
 
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.


THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
 
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.
(Give me chastity and continency, but do not give it yet.)

St Augustine 354-430 AD

Credat Iudeaeus Apella, non ego.
(Apella the Jew must believe it, not I = Tell it to the Marines)

Horace 65-8 BC

Le Nez de Cléopâtre: s'il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé.
(Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole history of the world would have been different.)

Blaise Pascal 1623 -1662
 
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
 
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

The Italian Job (1969)

You ain't heard nothing' yet: Al Jolson
 
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it." W.C. Fields
 
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." Groucho Marx
 
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde.
 
Q: "What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?"

A: "You can't hear an enzyme."

Dorothy Parker
 
"Fuck you! Nasty letter to follow." Usually attributed to W.C. Fields.

W.C. Fields is one of my favorite curmudgeons.

"I like children - fried."

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
 
Not necessarily my best sentence, but my favourite opening like to a book:

"It was the day my grandmother exploded." The Crow Road by Iain Banks
 
"Oh my God! Look at your face! You took too much!"

--Hunter Thompson, "Fear & Loathing..."
 
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