1920s Speakeasy Quotes & Sayings

Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me — Jonathan Stroud

People always find it so frustrating that there's no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the end, because they're afraid of what it might be. I can understand that, even though I know it's not the way things work. I never know what the hell's going to happen next, but I can live with that. — Michael Marshall Smith

Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion! — Emma Goldman

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor. — Ogden Nash

I swore I would love you 'til the end of time, so now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive. — Meat Loaf

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. — Tom Stoppard

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara

I will not negotiate with the undead! — David Wellington

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. — Lauren Bacall

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment! — Ralph Waldo Emerson