Algy Quotes & Sayings

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day. — Madonna Ciccone

God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look. — James Joyce

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that. — Oscar Wilde

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does. — Oscar Wilde

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain. — Reyna Pryde

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances. — Oscar Wilde

The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. — Eileen Myles

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way. — Chris D'Lacey

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression — Oscar Wilde

If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode. — Umar

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. — Michael Porter

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. — Oscar Wilde

ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
JACK. I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.
ALGERNON. Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject. Divorces are made in Heaven- ... — Oscar Wilde

I used to be somebody. Now I'm somebody else. — Jeff Bridges

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc. — Rachel Zucker

So, I'm no more then a stolen relic, locked up, here, until you might have use of me?! — Loki Laufeyson

The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them. — Karen Foxlee