Facetious Quotes

• I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

  Martin Lawrence

  Mean, Keys, Soul

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• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  Isaac Barrow

  Matter, Obscene

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.366

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• El avaro y el glotón son dos buitres caraduras: uno esconde su tienda, y el otro almacena su pellejo.

  Josh Billings

  Two, Buzzards, Stores

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• I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prejudice, Done, Baptists

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• To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

  Saadi

  Wise, Accomplishment, Wit

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• I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

  Thomas Browne

  Dream, Laughing, Way

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.121

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• Se cuenta de Lord Kelvin, un famoso físico escocés del siglo pasado, que después de haber dado una conferencia sobre átomos y moléculas, uno de sus estudiantes se le acercó con la pregunta: "Profesor, ¿cuál es su idea de la estructura del átomo?". "¿Qué?", respondió Kelvin, "¿La estructura del átomo? La propia palabra 'átomo' significa algo que no se puede cortar. ¿Cómo puede entonces tener una estructura?" "Eso", comentó el joven burlón, "demuestra la desventaja de saber griego".

  Arthur Compton

  Media, Corte, Ciencia

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• I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

  Bella Abzug

  Country, Business, Real

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). "¡Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington", Saturday Review Press

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• Socratescuando se le informó de algunos discursos despectivos que alguien había pronunciado sobre él a sus espaldas, sólo hizo esta respuesta jocosa: "Que me pegue a mí también cuando esté ausente".

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Scandal, Used

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• The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Two, Roosters

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• A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.

  Robert Reed

  Loss, Thinking, Intelligent

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• MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Offering, Government, Justice

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