Auctioneer Quotes

#1. Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

#2. The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

Jack White

#3. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

#4. When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people .

Diogenes

#5. But Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly as an auctioneer treats his goods.

Oscar Wilde

#6. An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Jack White

#7. Sudden distrust slicked down Arin's spine.
Roshar raised his hand to quiet the roaring crowd, and Arin was reminded of Cheat relishing his role as an auctioneer. A stone rose in his throat. Kestrel's hand tightened on his, but Arin no longer felt wholly there.

Marie Rutkoski

#8. In the small glass box the auctioneer held high lay waiting for me the sacred teeth of none other than Marilyn Monroe.

Valeria Luiselli

#9. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

#10. An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

Steven Levy

#12. We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

Gavin MacLeod

#13. But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

Neil LaBute

#14. The more I learn, the more I know how less I had.

Anonymous

#15. Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

Deroy Murdock

#16. You may feed the wolf as you will; he has always a hankering for the woods.

Ivan Turgenev

#17. We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

Donna Goddard