Oliver Herford citáty
Oliver Herford
Datum narození: 1863
Datum úmrtí: 1935
Oliver Herford byl americký spisovatel.
Citáty Oliver Herford
„Only the young die good.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
„Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 72 (1955), p. 156.
„Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.
„Diplomacy: Lying in state.“
— Oliver Herford
The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).
„I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
„A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
„Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
„A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.“
— Oliver Herford
Misattributed, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
„There is no time like the pleasant.“
— Oliver Herford
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
„Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.
„Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
„My wife has a whim of iron.“
— Oliver Herford
Attributed, Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
„Age, like distance, lends a double charm.“
— Oliver Herford
Misattributed, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
„Many are called but few get up.“
— Oliver Herford
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
